Less Than A Pearl
| Album version | 3:44 | Loxian | 2005 |
Liner notes
…yet there is one sound that is not their own and which their hearts yearn to have. It is the sound of the Song of the Loxians.
It is a sound that awakens in Valley-dwellers a strange feeling, one they cannot know yet one that is more familiar to them than their own heartbeat. And it awakens in the hearts of all the Valley-dwellers a longing that brings them to the edge of tears, because it is
the song of both the beginning and the end…
notes and illustration by Roma Ryan
Amarantine promotional box, 2005
Loxian lyrics
Phonetic lyrics
Da rhay-sy o’
Mal lay-rhee o’
Sav-ay-ly o’
Kad-ay-ly o’
Hey o nay Kor-rhe-ay
Ah hey o nay ka ru mmay
Eh hymm a vl-la rhe-ea kan
Eh hymm a ka lla mmay o an
O ay ka nee hymm nno hymm
O ay ka nee hymm nno hymm a rhay.
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
He-ah vi-iya me-ne mmay
A he ah lu-ua no ee-tay
Eh o th-ay-a rhee lloo ka
Eh o mer-ra man a saa
Hey nal oroom-may hymm nno hymm
Ah hey nal ba-na hymm nno a rhay.
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Hii-yha…
Translation from the cd booklet
Out of night has come the day.
Out of night, our small earth.
Our words drift away.
Our words journey
to find those who will listen.
We call out into the distance…
We call out into the distance…
We call out into the distance…
We call out into the distance…
Less than a pearl in a sea of stars,
we are a lost island in the shadows.
It may be our words become lost.
It may be our words find nothing, find no-one.
We call out into the distance…
We call out into the distance…
(repeat)
lyrics by Roma Ryan
EMI Music Publishing Ltd, 2005
Translation from ‘Water shows the hidden heart’ book
Less than a pearl
Long journey to knowledge
Now sings the way
of what was
The world moves
As it is, out of night, the written end of night,
and, as it is, out of night a small-world-shape.
Our words we send beyond the moon
Our words and the shape of world-time
Out of the world to find an answer to our lost words
Out of the world to find an answer in the journey of
the lost word,
We call out into the distance
We call out into the distance
Less than a pearl in the shape of stars
and alone in the shadows our island is unfound
Our endevours leave the way of the world
Yet our dreams have hope
As it is, nothing written is a lost word
and, as it is, our words may journey to no-one.
We call out into the distance.
We call out into the distance.
Repeat
lyrics by Roma Ryan
EMI Music Publishing Ltd, 2005
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