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Words & Music |
by B. Blanke |
Recorders & background vocals |
by Gudrun Blanke |
Lead vocals & all other instruments |
by Lothlorien |
Artwork |
by Gudrun Blanke |
Glistening stones
A red band gleamed through the ring of fog
And announced another day with its dawn
Another starry night died away
The birds began to sing their song to embrace the new day
And the people awoke from a peaceful sleep
And started their day pleased and in harmony
And they tilled the fields and they sowed and cropped
And they baked the bread and shared what they got
Early a young man went to the fields
To harvest the ripe potatoes and beets
He crooned a song to himself
While he dug the vegetables out of the earth
Suddenly he saw a blue light in the ground
A glistering stone as big as a fist he found
And this stone shone brighter than everything
The young man had ever seen
And he carried his treasure homeward
And he proudly presented it to everyone
And the people saw this glistering stone
And everyone wanted it for his own
And they began to beg and to bargain
But the young man didn’t want to give his treasure away
And jealousy crept into the hearts
Of the people and their fellowship fell apart
"Where you find one there must be more"
So, the people set out to search for these glistening stones
And some of those stones were really found
But most of the searching men missed out
The reports of the stones spread in no time
The greed for the stones spread like wildfire
And all over the island people rifled the ground
In hope to find some of these fabled stones
And they dug deeper and deeper into the ground
Searching for more of these glistering stones
And they roused the beast that had been sleeping for yonks
In the caves deep beneath the ground
And the beast awoke from his deep, deep sleep
And he got a really tremendous spleen
The whole island quivered by his roar
His torrid breath let the mountains explode
He spat fire and ash into the sky
And the ash beclouded the sunlight
And toxic ash and fire rained down
Onto lakes and rivers and onto the ground
And the beast spat torrid, molten stones
That outpoured all over the ground
An ocean of fire burned up the whole land
Flattened everything on its path
Destroyed the forests, the fields and the homesteads
Destroyed all living on the island
In panic fear and in stampede
The people ran for their lives and tried to reach the beach
They hurled themselves into the sea
To escape this inferno, the air was filled with death and screams
Just a few of them snatched a place aboard
On one of the few fishing boats
And these boats were much too small
For these crowds
Eleven boats set sail
But just five of them reached the ring of haze
Seventy-eight people on the boats
Clustered together while they immerged into the fog
Behind them their exploding home
And the screams of those, who drowned
And while the screams fell silent gradually
The survivors sailed into insecurity