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I - NOVÆ TERRÆ

from Cords by Ars Pro Vita

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lyrics

It’s night on a deserted beach. A strong wind throws grains of sand against the figure of an old man, who silently walks by the shoreline, with a staff in his hand. And he walked the whole night for seven years until he realized he was tired. At the very moment he stopped, the wind ceased and a full moon began to rise over the sea.
Facing it, he started to draw a big circle with the staff, writing four words in the sand: Passion. Courage. Reason. Intuition.

After closing the first circle, he restarted drawing the words, round and round, over and over, for seventy years.

As the moon completed its path across the sky, disappearing at the opposite side, he stopped walking. Then he sat in the center of the circle, and fell asleep.

After sleeping for seven hundred years he was awakened by the light of the sun. Around him, the words and the footsteps had been erased by the action of the tide.

Beneath a clear blue sky, he took the staff and began to walk again by the seashore. This time the man walked for seven thousand years until he felt tired.

As the sun completed its path across the sky, falling at the opposite side, after seventy thousand years walking, he stopped as the wind ceased. And now. Two full moons rose over the sea.

Facing them, he draws a new big circle writing those same four words. And as it had happened before, he draws the words, walking round and round for seven hundred thousand years.

When the two moons completed their path across the sky, he stopped walking. He lays on the sand. And falls asleep again.

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Waking up at daybreak
The Old Man found himself drenched by the tide.
The words he wrote in the sand
Had disappeared
Washed by the waves

The shore was intact
As if nobody had stepped on it for a long long time
As if it were waiting for
Someone to take new steps
To draw new shapes

No one to talk to
No delight, no pain, no nothing to recall
Just the sand, just the sea
And a new path to find.

Silent thoughts and brilliant insights
Travel across his boundless mind

And the Old Man takes his staff in his hand
Seeking for brand new quests
No fear in the heart
He’s ready to go.

Passion, Courage, Reason, Intuition are his words
After sleeping for so long
He awakes
And retakes his walk, he’s alone.
He's alone again.

(Narration - Part II)
Days and nights came and went.
Another circle. The same words.

Seven times he repeated this cycle.
Seven moons rose over the sea.
Then at the first day of a new cycle,
He saw another Old Man walking in his direction.
As they get closer, they stopped and looked each other.
Turning to the sea, they sat side by side.

That night, seven moons rose.
The Old Men didn’t fall asleep.
They stared to the horizon.
And after seven million years, the day broke.
Two suns rose over the sea.

credits

from Cords, released December 31, 2020
Vocals: Paulo Venegas
Music and lyrics by PJ Venegas

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