Orion Swings

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about: Words & Music by Brooke Lunderville, 2006.
Alternate title: Väinämöinen's Scythe Cuts Me Through. It's my cheerful, okay, gloomy and alienated winter solstice song! Well, winter leaves an ambiguous taste in my mouth.

(The image to the left is "the defence of the Sampo," a painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The white-haired dude is Väinämöinen - in Finland, the constellation Orion is called Väinämöinen's Scythe.)
lyrics: The mountain's snowy top and face of spar
Reflect the moon's serene, indifferent rays
And Venus when she is an evening star
Is undiminished now by lingering day

Orion's distant sword swings overhead
In blessing or in threat? No one can say.
No omen is discerned, no portents read
The meaning of the stars is not betrayed to me.

Through pale and starveling days we bleakly wait
For darkness to be spent and so retreat
For winter to renounce her cold estate
And coax the creeping springtime's mellow heat

Orion's distant sword swings overhead
In blessing or in threat? No one can say.
No omen is discerned, no portents read
The meaning of the stars is not betrayed to me.
credits: from Steel Cage Match, released 19 June 2009
Vocals, Banjola: Brooke Lunderville
Guitar: John Caspell
Bass: Peggy Lunderville
license: Some rights reserved
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