A Dance Of Elk Entwined Lyrics - Singles - Cormorant

The Northern Wind over Glacier Park 

carries the musk of the elken rut: 

An ammonia stench, thick with lust, 

the scent of battle, death and conquest. 

A lone pair of antlers crests above the harem, 

thirty cows drinking at a Logan Pass creek. 

The bull elk spots shifting light between the trees, 

another young challenger to his throne. 

From the wood, a bugled shriek 

The females freeze, lift their heads and stare. 

A rival bursts from the brush 

and charges for the leader of the pack. 

Skulls collide 

Punctured hide 

Beaten pride 

Nature's guide is war. 

Fight to the death. 

Panting and stumbling 

Resolve is crumbling 

Bloodlines: their wager 

Their lives in danger 

One 

final 

charge 

to end it all! 

Elk clash, the young buck 

Swifter, his horn stuck 

through his elder's eye. 

Antlers like lances 

entwined, he dances 

with the cadaver of his enemy.