The Loxian Song
Our words go beyond the moon.
Our words go into the shadows.
The river sings out the words
of the shape of the endlessness.
We write of our journey through night.
We write in our aloneness in the stillness.
The erraKan* want to know the shape of eternity.

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows why time will not tell us?

We have the mountains, the moon and solitude.
Will they be with us to the journey’s end?
The river holds the lost road of the sky;
the shape of eternity?

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows why time will not tell us?

Where is the beginning, where is the end?
When did the sky first cry tears?
The erraEa* asks
is the end found in the endlessness?
Day and night are in the unknown.
The day tells us the measure of time.
Why are we calling out into the endlessness?

One’s world is the colour of a small cloud.
We are but a moment in time.
What is the answer that is found in the endlessness?

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows why time will not tell us?

Our words go beyond the moon.
Our words go into the shadows.
The river sings out the words
of the shape of the endlessness.
We write of our journey through nigh.
We write in our aloneness in the stillness.
The erraKan* want to know the shape of eternity.

We have the mountains, the moon and solitude.
Will they be with us to the journey’s end?
The river holds the lost road of the sky;
the shape of eternity?

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows why time will not tell us?

Where is the beginning, where is the end?
When did the sky first cry tears?
The erraEa* asks
is the end found in the endlessness?
Day and night are in the unknown.
The day tells us the measure of time.
Why are we calling out into the endlessness?
()ne’s world is the colour of a small cloud.
We are but a moment in time.
What is the answer that is found in the endlessness?

The endlessness…

*erraKan – the Loxians, the people with the moon as their emblem
*erraEa – the River people, Valley-dwellers. The river is their emblem.
*yllea – a River person, a Riparian.

lyrics by Roma Ryan
EMI Music Publishing Ltd, 2005