Zlida Caosgi (To Water The Earth) Songtext / Lyric

The hammer and the chisel from out in the shed

Pulled out from beneath a pile of time

He remembered that was where he left it

Though it had less rust back then

Sunlight pushing through the eaves



The poet and the sculptor

The hermit and the madman

The chisel shattered into pieces of dismay



He dropped the stone from the cottage roof

It hit the ground on a bed of dirt

Rolled to the grass like a tired old man

Turning asleep away from the sun






The distant rumbling of thunder made him stop and think

The rushing of the thunderhead

A storm blown in from heaven

And rain like whispers in the nearby forest leaves

The forest roof and the swaying of its cathedral eaves



He glanced up at the LIGHTNING ROD

And rushed toward his ladder

He fastened the ROD upon the roof

To the dream that promised meaning

Promised purpose to his life, his loneliness and love

And dancing naked as the rain threw down

Its pitchers in rage upon the ground

He prayed and wept as the lightning crept

Above the poet and his rite

And when the day had turned to night

With the fury of the tempest

A splitting of the laden sky

The LIGHTNING ROD exploded

With the stone upon the roof

And left a seed magnificent

With these words inscribed thereon