Tzinacán

Letra#

[Verse 1]  
Stone hemisphere, the jaguar pacing slow  
A slit of light, the warden lowers rope  
I lost the count of years inside this dark  
My body learned the posture of the dead  
  
[Verse 2]  
They burned the pyramid, they broke my bones  
The idol fell; my silence did not break  
Then came the need to ransom time with meaning  
I reached into my shadow for a name  
  
[Pre-Chorus]  
The mountain fades, the river shifts its bed  
The stars betray the shapes they used to hold  
But on the fur, the spots remain, the spots remain  
  
[Chorus]  
Fourteen words, forty syllables of flame  
Written on the living skin of jaguars  
A formula that no one needs to say  
A single word, and all things are said  
  
[Verse 3]  
I dreamed a grain of sand upon the floor  
I slept again and then the grains were three  
They filled the cell, I drowned beneath the weight  
A voice said: you have woken to a dream  
  
[Bridge — building, ecstatic]  
I saw the Wheel — not here, not there, but everywhere  
Made of water, made of fire, infinite  
Every thread of every cause entwined  
And I was one, and he who broke me — one  
  
[Chorus]  
Fourteen words, forty syllables of flame  
Written on the living skin of jaguars  
A formula that no one needs to say  
A single word, and all things are said  
  
[Outro — dissolving, near-whisper]  
I know the words… I will not speak them now  
The man I was has ceased to be my name  
Let the mystery die with me in the dark  
Who has seen the universe forgets himself  
  
[aside] que muera conmigo el misterio