Name: Orb Weaver
Duration: P00H03M08S
Description: "Orb Weaver" validates dream, metaphor, and the beauty of the smallest details, while also making a call to freedom. The image of a web dotted with a few feathers, dew drops, the wrapped carcasses of dead beetles plays throughout the song. A final question is posed in metaphor about death, grief, and beauty.

Orb Weaver

from Astral Prince - EP by Astral Prince

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"Orb Weaver" validates dream, metaphor, and the beauty of the smallest details, while also making a call to freedom. The image of a web dotted with a few feathers, dew drops, the wrapped carcasses of dead beetles plays throughout the song. A final question is posed in metaphor about death, grief, and beauty.

lyrics

Orb weaver, willow wonder:
fragile frame, though fashioned strong of
webs taut, feather flames

Beads aligned with good intent.
Holy plumes, like those of mine:
webs taut, dark entombs.

Aura dance, shaman trance:
Care to take a glance
Or join the plants?

Under the guise of a given chance,
it's a fine romance.

Incense cloud, rainbow beam:
What's it even mean?
Ought we dare to dream?

If the ocean even turned to steam,
what would we ever glean?

Change your stance, cast a glance,
dare to loose your hands, and join the dance.

Free yourself, and burn in love.

Break the bands, walk the lands;
prisoner, make a stand, and live by chance!

Open up your heart and...

And by chance the woven wonder,
clad in feather flames,
suffers degradation and decay,
it's builder lost away...

Should we let the dying struggle,
or whisk them on their way?

Should we harvest silken strands,
and wind them up on sticks and dowels for play?

Or cast glimpses by the light of day?

As the feathers fade and fray.

Should we let it stay?

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from Astral Prince - EP, released January 28, 2015

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Astral Prince Sausalito, California

- Astral Prince -
North Bay native, musician, friend, suburban shaman.

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