The Mists of Algiers

from ANCIENT CHAINS by JOHN TERLAZZO & VOICES IN THE HALL

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THE MISTS OF ALGIERS
Are you still standing, you who were chosen? / I’m told you never once flinched when they bid you drink the potion, / that you moved like a Goddess through those temporal explosions / and your Dance was exquisite – every reckless motion / Fall down before her, down on your knees / Lay low your offering of bakhoor & lilies / Show her your breastplate, the holes made by spears, but don’t raise your gaze on the Mists of Algiers / How precious your eyelids, tattooed in kohl – Forged where the voice rings the smoldering soul. / I have faith that you’ll transcend the poison in your bowl / And rise above all you’ve seen down in that hole. /…The phases of the moon move through the spheres / Don’t raise your gaze on the silhouettes of Algiers / All I thought I was & all I thought I knew / Now turns to ash & dust – it’s never felt so true / And the amrit floods the tongue, washes down over my chest / I’ve come through the furnace untouched, and passed the test /…humble your gaze on the Mists of Algiers.

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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