Goddess Gagged Lyrics - Fortress - Protest The Hero

Oh God! 

The sound they must have heard in the distance: 

A wilderness of sound and movement repeating itself across 

The narrows of mountainsides, the cries of creatures crashing 

Against cold rock, human voices heralding the hillside. 

Their bellows bounding ripe with resonance 

From here unimportant call received the all important answer. 

Oh goddess who bore us what we must have done to have buried 

Your daughters and prayed for a son. 

The wind and the rain spoke a language of wonder 

To a species rising thickly to a dialogue with thunder 

In the empty place between better and worse 

Language unravels and irony hurts. 

In the common place between hunger and thirst 

The words that define us a blessing and curse 

The words that confine the ideas traversed the ear 

To hear the song without verse, the sound of the sound of the sound 

Utter first, the burst into nothing so sudden and soft. 

The silence inside you when the music has stopped.