Circle of Smoke
v4
@Nataly Baranova
Circle of Smoke
v4
@Nataly Baranova
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Walk with the ash in your palm
Step by the ring of stones
Hear how the earth keeps time
Under our bare bones
Smoke in the cedar air
Old names waking slow
(Old names waking slow)
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise up your hands now
Turn to the fire
Feel that ground answer
Feel it go higher
[Chorus]
Circle of smoke
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
Carry us home
Drum in my chest now
Drum in my chest now
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
(Carry us home)
[Verse 2]
Moon on the buckskin drum
Flute like a cracked-out star
Rattles in woven hands
Pulling the dark apart
Faces in ember glow
Calling the night to dance
Calling the night to dance
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise up your hands now
Turn to the fire
Feel that ground answer
Feel it go higher
[Chorus]
Circle of smoke
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
Carry us home
Drum in my chest now
Drum in my chest now
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
(Carry us home)
[Bridge]
Hush to the pinewood edge
Hush to the river bend
What was lost in the dust
Comes back again
Comes back again
[Final Chorus]
Circle of smoke
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
Carry us home
Drum in my chest now
Drum in my chest now
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
(Carry us home)
Walk with the ash in your palm
Step by the ring of stones
Hear how the earth keeps time
Under our bare bones
Smoke in the cedar air
Old names waking slow
(Old names waking slow)
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise up your hands now
Turn to the fire
Feel that ground answer
Feel it go higher
[Chorus]
Circle of smoke
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
Carry us home
Drum in my chest now
Drum in my chest now
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
(Carry us home)
[Verse 2]
Moon on the buckskin drum
Flute like a cracked-out star
Rattles in woven hands
Pulling the dark apart
Faces in ember glow
Calling the night to dance
Calling the night to dance
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise up your hands now
Turn to the fire
Feel that ground answer
Feel it go higher
[Chorus]
Circle of smoke
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
Carry us home
Drum in my chest now
Drum in my chest now
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
(Carry us home)
[Bridge]
Hush to the pinewood edge
Hush to the river bend
What was lost in the dust
Comes back again
Comes back again
[Final Chorus]
Circle of smoke
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
Carry us home
Drum in my chest now
Drum in my chest now
Circle of smoke
Carry us home
(Carry us home)
Style of Music
Tribal ceremonial chant with a steady hypnotic pulse, deep powwow-style drums, wooden rattles, and a haunting flute motif; verse stays sparse with low male chants and frame-drum calls, pre-chorus thickens with layered responses and rising rattles, chorus lands on unison shout phrases and open drum hits. Add breathy flute fills, reversed drum swells, and hand-rattle accents between lines. Dark, earthy, wide-ritual mix with close-mic vocals and cavernous room tail., deep, hypnotic, native american, steady
