Shaman's Dance - Ketzer

Pour blood into fire

The pounding of drums, the heaving crowd

Screams getting louder

Like beats of the heart

Up and down, left and right, no center to turn around

Dismember me, oh journey of a million forms!

Treading into the Nightworld

Lightly though fast

Leaving behind the threshold

The word that won’t last

Up and down, left and right, no center to turn around

Mother — Open my eyes

Father — Close them again

Mother — Take me to light

The center and the othr side

My hands and my arms and my fingers are crossd

I open my mouth and it’s gaping with lust

Uncertain life but certain death

Dancing the dance on the carpets of sweat

Entangled in trance I am your most wicked dreams

Wet with life from the eclectic streams

Come on, feel and see the horror of the shaman’s dance

Join in the humming sounds

And feel the wicked love for death and life

Take my tongue and

Cut my thumbs, bark and howl

Eat the earth

Two becomes four, the beast it turns

Up and down, left and right, no center to turn around

I’m the shape shifter, I’ll turn spirit and matter to one!

Break through the circle

Stand still like a rock

Though I am here and there

Silence and sound

The place between time I have found

Up and down, left and right, my center to turn around

Four becomes two and two becomes one

The journey will end at the places unseen

High, so high to the truth in between

Death and life, up and down

Follow the path to the heart of the world

I dance to the sky and leap up the clouds

Dig through the dust and onwards I go

Up and down, left and right

To the center and the other side