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Lyrics to 'Crack The Skye' song by Mastodon: Blessed visionary cut me with your sun The rivers ran in blood Spark fueled to fire Deep within th.
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from the album Crack the Skye 路Copyright: Writer(s): Troy Jayson Sanders, Brann Timothy Dailor, William Brent Hinds, William Breen Kelliher Lyrics Terms of Use
Blessed visionary
Cut me with your sun
The rivers ran in blood
Spark fueled to fire
Deep within this endless void
Searching for a sign
The vessel forged inside of me
Watches over like the death of the moon
Strike the shepherd, sheep will scatter
Mountains of despair
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I can see the pain
It's written all over your face
Crack The Skye Story
The screaming arrows tear through my soul
In the dawn your face is haunting, white ghostly dreams
Weight of worlds is on your shoulders
Hear the voice of gold
I can see the pain
It's written all over your face
Desperate heathens flock to sirens
Guard your heartache well
Mama, don't let them take her
Don't let them take her down
Please tell Lucifer he can't have this one
Her spirit's too strong
I can see the pain
It's written all over your face
I can see the pain
You can make it all go away
The title track, and track 6, of Mastodon’s fourth album “Crack the Skye”.
Lead vocals are by Scott Kelly of Neurosis, who has sung on every Mastodon album since Leviathan.
Although following the album’s theme about “Czarist (sic) Russia”, the song was written in part as a homage to Brann Dailor’s sister Skye, who committed suicide at age 14, when Dailor was a teenager. Brann and Skye were only 9 months apart in age, and very close as children.
According to Kelly:
That song was a really, really heavy song to do. That song was about Brann’s sister and how she passed away, and it was a story that I was very familiar with from knowing Brann. When he decided to do that, he called me up to talk to me about it and said “this is what I wanna do” and “I really, really want you to sing the song” and I said, you know “sure, I will”. I took it really seriously and I emailed with Brann’s Dad a couple of times and just talked to him about Skye, and then he sent me a photograph of her actually, and I sat there and looked at that photograph of her and just kinda meditated on her and on all of the situation, and the family and then actually set all that shit up in the studio and recorded the song with her picture there, and I just really tried to do it as real as I felt I could.