The period of time leading up to the recording of Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest were extremely painful for Zao’s singer Dan Weyandt. He experienced the death of a number of close friends and family. This is what inspired the lyrics to this song. In the Zao documentary The Lesser Lights of Heave...
When you shut your eyes and fell asleep
Dark clouds descended on the souls of the ones
Who held you close to their hearts
Close to their hearts
My heart broke
Open
The beauty of an embrace a place
To lay down the pain
Where blood and fire bring rest and peace
I sit away in a secret place the shadow of wings
I think of you
And my heart breaks open
To Think of You is to Treasure an Absent Memory was produced by Barry Poynter.
Zao released To Think of You is to Treasure an Absent Memory on Tue May 19 1998.