Sophie Auster – Word Heat lyrics

The bells chime for no reason and we too
Chime bells for no reason and we too
Will rejoice in the noise of chains
That will chime within us with the bells
What is this language that whips us as we tumble into the light
Our nerves are whips in the hands of time
And doubt comes with a single colorless wing

The bells chime for no reason and we too
The river water has washed its bed so bare
It bears away the threads of glances that have dragged
At the foot of walls licking up lives in bars
Tempting the weak drying up ecstasies
Digging to the depths of old possibilities
The river water has washed its bed so bare
That even the light slides on the smooth wave
And falls to the bottom with a heavy shattering of stones

The bells chime for no reason and we too
Cares carried with us
The inner clothes
We put on each morning
Unbuttoned by night's dreaming hands
The bells chime for no reason and we too
We leave with those leaving arrive with those arriving
Leave with those arriving arrive when the others leave


Colors put down their weights thinking
Thinking or crying or staying or eating
Fruits as light as hovering smoke
Thinking of the heat that weaves the word
Around its kernel the dream called us

The bells chime for no reason and we too
We walk to escape the swarming roads
A single disease sowing our death
I know I carry the song in me and I am not afraid
I carry death and if I die it is death
Who will carry me in his unseen arms
The bells chime for no reason and we too
Why seek the end of the chain that links us to the chain
Chime bells for no reason and we too
We will make the broken glasses chime within us
The night's dark breath thickens
And along my veins sailors' flutes are singing
I think of the heat weaving the word
Around its kernel the dream called us