American Drift is the opening title track of Elysia Crampton’s 2015 album, American Drift. It is a ‘transevangelistic prayer’ written by Elysia for her collaborator and speaker, Money Allah.
I'm nailed to the impossible
Stoned heights, blue gallows —
Climb:
Sundered rock
Slough of despond;
Trampler, Mangler, Mauler, Butcher —
Wreck
Naked like a worm
The gross bulls encompass me
Save me from the dog's mouth
Blaze on you conjury of stars
Blaze just, Orion
Climb;
Roar Shenandoah
Impossible fall;
Falling
Fever'd rock-
Husk
Husk
Hewed out the mountain —
Come rolling
Come tearing down
Peal, quake Shenandoah
Impossible fall
Blaze just Orion —
Blaze cool water
Blaze spoiled signage
O foul augury —
-Slip infinity-
Trace
From torn edge;
Pierced exactly
Pinned to the exact
Pinned to the heat
Marked on the precise...
Incapacitated
Incapacitating
To fountain fly;
Words of my roaring;
Blue ridge stay blue, bright wing stay bright
Eye-string snap;
O calyx, shining wound!
Primeval gash —
Mar...
Cleave the rock —
Splinter seep, splinter'd host
Flung out-
Lobbed thing
Damned shadow'd man...
Son whose limit is your infinity alone —
Unfolded
Unfolding...
Here
Limit with us
Narrow place
Stretched and frightfully flayed
O thing;
Toad whose home is the ribcage
Water clench the rock;
River run footless —
Trace the end...
O bluff rapt in light
O talus sloped, speared summit;
O earthwork and eyeball —
Varicose and branched
Garden, night, cup, calcified
Garden, night, cup, calcified
Here
Here
American Drift was written by Elysia Crampton.
American Drift was produced by Elysia Crampton.
Elysia Crampton released American Drift on Fri Aug 07 2015.