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Saturnine Dirigible’s Himachal – Full Album (1:41:30)

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1:40:30 of Pilgrimage through Ruins, Mirages, Fire, and Rebirth — A Modern Echo of Led Zeppelin’s Mystic Wanderings

Saturnine Dirigible’s Himachal: A Desert Odyssey Beyond Kashmir

An hour and forty minutes of pilgrimage through ruins, mirages, fire, and rebirth — a modern echo of Zeppelin’s mystic wanderings.

Himachal is not just an album — it is a vast, 1:41:30 journey across deserts, ruins, sacred sands, and the transformative fire of myth. Born from the allusion to Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” and carried by the name Saturnine Dirigible, this work reimagines what a concept album can be: part pilgrimage, part ritual, and part resurrection of the mystic rock tradition.

The Zeppelin Connection: From Kashmir to Himachal

• Allusive Naming: The very title, Saturnine Dirigible, nods to Led Zeppelin, while Himachal echoes their iconic “Kashmir.”
• Spirit, Not Imitation: Instead of copying, the album channels Zeppelin’s epic scale and mysticism, building an entirely new desert odyssey.
• Extended Scope: Where “Kashmir” was one track, Himachal expands into a 20-part narrative cycle across nearly two hours.

The Journey Through Sound

• Opening Invocation: Tracks like “Oasis of the Serpent” and “Endless Road” set the tone — vast, atmospheric, and rooted in journey.
• Desert Pilgrimage: Mid-album, pieces like “Mirage Walker,” “Ruin Walker,” and “The Shifting Tower” chart the trials of wandering.
• Ritual and Rebirth: The “Sacred Sand” suite and “Ancient Fire” mark the climactic transformation through fire, scars, and spirit.

Fusion of Traditions and Innovations

• Eastern Resonance: Sitar, oud, tabla, and desert percussion anchor the album in mystic soundscapes beyond Western rock.
• Classic Rock Energy: Electric guitars, organs, and Zeppelin-esque riffs provide familiar ground while driving the narrative forward.
• Modern Voices: Spoken-word passages, rap sections, and layered production weave new textures into the fabric of the music.

Themes of Transformation

• Walking as Pilgrimage: Across track after track, walking becomes the metaphor for endurance, discovery, and destiny.
• Desert as Teacher: Mirages, ruins, and sacred sands serve as trials, stripping away illusions and forging identity.
• Fire as Renewal: The fire trials burn away the old self, leaving scars, wisdom, and a new sense of being.

A Monumental Listening Experience

• Length and Ambition: At 1 hour and 41 minutes, Himachal is designed as an immersive experience, not casual listening.
• Cohesive Arc: From the first invocation to the closing reprise, the album functions as a single story rather than isolated tracks.
• Timeless Resonance: Its themes of struggle, transcendence, and unity carry a resonance that feels both ancient and urgent today.

A Pilgrimage Beyond Sound

Saturnine Dirigible’s Himachal is more than an album. It is a vessel — a zeppelin of its own — carrying listeners across shifting sands, into fire, through ruins, and finally into transformation. Like Kashmir before it, it is not bound to one time or place, but to the eternal human yearning for something beyond the horizon.

This is not music to play in the background. It is a pilgrimage to undertake, a desert to cross, and a fire to endure. In the end, Himachal leaves the listener scarred, renewed, and perhaps — finally — whole.

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Tracks/Lyrics

Oasis of the Serpent (instrumental intro)

Endless Road

[Verse 1]
Can you feel the ground beneath us shake and sway?
These boots have walked a thousand miles today
The dust kicks up like ancient prayers unspoken
While something deep inside me stays unbroken

I’ve been walking, walking, walking down this endless road
Walking, walking, walking with this heavy load
The horizon calls my name but never shows its face
Walking, walking, walking to find my rightful place

[Chorus]
Where the mountains meet the endless sky
Where the wind carries the reason why
I keep moving through the barren land
Following visions I don’t understand
Walking, walking, walking down this endless road

[Verse 2]
Tell me why the stars above seem so aware
Of every step I take through desert air
The moon becomes my witness in the darkness
While distance makes my heart grow ever restless

I’ve been walking, walking, walking down this endless road
Walking, walking, walking with this heavy load
The dawn breaks like a promise never kept before
Walking, walking, walking toward an open door

[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear the voices calling from beyond?
Ancient words that make me feel I don’t belong
In this world of mortal pain and earthly chains
Something greater flows within my restless veins

[Chorus]
Where the mountains meet the endless sky
Where the wind carries the reason why
I keep moving through the barren land
Following visions I don’t understand
Walking, walking, walking down this endless road

[Bridge]
You told me once that journey’s end would set me free
But every mile reveals new mystery to me
The path unwinds like time itself through ages past
Walking, walking, walking till I’m home at last

The sand shifts and the stones cry out in harmony
While thunder speaks in tongues I’m meant to see
My feet have found their rhythm with the beating heart
Walking, walking, walking from the very start

[Solo]

[Final Chorus]
Where the mountains meet the endless sky
Where the wind carries the reason why
I keep moving through this promised land
Following visions now I understand
Walking, walking, walking down this endless road
Walking, walking, walking down this endless road
Walking, walking, walking home

[Outro]
Can you feel it calling?
Walking, walking, walking
Can you feel it calling?
Walking, walking, walking down this endless road

Mirage Walker

[Verse 1]
You walk the endless sand tonight
Where horizons blur and bend
I watch you chase what isn’t there
Around each phantom turn

Your footsteps trace a winding path
Through heat that never breaks
While visions dance on shifting dunes
And call your name in vain

[Chorus]
You’re searching for the water’s edge
That moves beyond your reach
The oasis keeps its distance now
Forever incomplete
Lost between the real and false
Where nothing’s as it seems

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
The sun beats down but gives no truth
Just trembling walls of light
You think you see familiar faces
In the wavering air

I know you hear the temple bells
That ring from nowhere close
Your thirst grows stronger with each step
That leads you further out

[Chorus]
You’re searching for the water’s edge
That moves beyond your reach
The oasis keeps its distance now
Forever incomplete
Lost between the real and false
Where nothing’s as it seems

[Bridge]
Your eyes reflect the burning sky
But cannot see what’s near
The desert holds its ancient tricks
While I remain right here

[Verse 3]
The stars come out but offer no direction home
You stumble through the cooling sand
Still chasing what you saw
The mirage fades but leaves its mark
Upon your weary mind

[Final Chorus]
You’re searching for the water’s edge
That moves beyond your reach
The oasis keeps its distance now
Forever incomplete
Lost between the real and false
Where nothing’s what it seems
Where nothing’s what it seems

[Outro]
The desert keeps its secrets close
While dawn breaks cold and clear

Ruin Walker

[Verse 1]
Weathered walls whisper warning words
Ancient archways arch above my head
Stone by stone the structure slowly shifts
I am walking where the wise once walked
Corridors carved with cryptic commands
Beneath my boots the broken breathes again
Time turns twisted through these temple halls

[Pre-Chorus]
And I feel the calling
(Calling, calling)
From the depths below
(Far below)

[Chorus]
I am the walker, walker, walker through the ruins
Walker, walker, walker of forgotten truths
Walker, walker, walker where the past persists
I am the walker, walker, walker through the ruins

[Verse 2]
Marble memories melt before my mind
Pillars painted with primordial prayers
Each footfall finds what fate has left behind
I am moving through the maze of years
Fragments fall like frozen phantom forms
In my heart the haunting starts to heal
Transformation taking total hold

[Pre-Chorus]
And I feel the calling
(Calling, calling)
From the depths below
(Far below)

[Chorus]
I am the walker, walker, walker through the ruins
Walker, walker, walker of forgotten truths
Walker, walker, walker where the past persists
I am the walker, walker, walker through the ruins

[Bridge]
Crumbling crowns of kings long dead
Broken bridges I must tread
Sacred scripts in scripted stone
Tell me I am not alone
(Not alone, not alone)

[Solo]
[Extended guitar and organ instrumental]

[Rap]
Moving methodically through metropolitan monuments now abandoned
Ancient architects assembled something that still stands demanding
My attention and devotion as I delve into the details
Every etching tells a tale that time could never fully curtail
Walking through the winding ways where warriors once waged their wars
Now just ruins and remains behind these massive marble doors
But I feel the force that flows through every fractured foundation
This is more than mere exploration this is my transformation
Stepping softly through the sanctum where the sages used to study
Where the builders built with blood and stone and something muddy
Between the mortal and divine that I can barely comprehend
But I know this journey never truly has to end

[Chorus]
I am the walker, walker, walker through the ruins
Walker, walker, walker of forgotten truths
Walker, walker, walker where the past persists
I am the walker, walker, walker through the ruins

[Outro]
Walker, walker, walker
(Through the ruins)
Walker, walker, walker
(Ancient truths)
Walker, walker, walker
(Past persists)
I am the walker
(Ahhhhhh)
[Orchestral crescendo]
Walker through the ruins
(Ohhhhhhh)
[Fade with organ and strings]

The Shifting Tower

[Intro]
Do you see it there, my friend?
Rising from the sand like a memory
That tower calls to me
In the distance where the heat bends light

[Verse 1]
I’ve been walking through these dunes for days
You wouldn’t believe the things I’ve seen
The ground beneath keeps shifting ways
Nothing here is what it seems

The sun beats down but I press on
Each step sinks deep into the sand
My water’s nearly gone
But I can’t turn back, you understand

[Chorus]
That beacon burns against the sky
Through every trick my eyes create
I know that I must reach it by
The time the sun decides my fate
The tower stands beyond the lies
Of this desert’s grand debate

[Verse 2]
I swear I’ve passed that rock before
Three times now or maybe five
But the compass points toward something more
Something that keeps me alive

The mirages dance and mock my thirst
Show me lakes that aren’t there
Sometimes I think I’m cursed
To chase what’s floating in the air

[Chorus]
That beacon burns against the sky
Through every trick my eyes create
I know that I must reach it by
The time the sun decides my fate
The tower stands beyond the lies
Of this desert’s grand debate

[Rap]
Listen close, I’ll tell you true about this journey I’m on
Started with a simple map and now everything’s wrong
Every dune looks just the same but somehow different too
Sand shifts under every step like nothing I once knew
Temperature drops when night falls and the stars come out to play
But that tower keeps on calling through the heat of every day
Voice inside keeps telling me to turn around and flee
But something deeper drives me on toward what I cannot see
Miles behind me disappear like footprints in the storm
What I thought was solid ground keeps changing every form
But I won’t stop, won’t give up, though my mind begins to fray
‘Cause that beacon in the distance shows me there’s another way

[Bridge]
Now I’m close enough to touch
The stone beneath my bleeding hands
It’s real, it’s here, it’s not too much
To ask of these unforgiving sands

[Chorus]
That beacon burns against the sky
Through every trick my eyes create
I know that I must reach it by
The time the sun decides my fate
The tower stands beyond the lies
Of this desert’s grand debate

[Outro]
I’m climbing up these ancient stairs
Each step reveals another truth
About the man who dares
To seek beyond his wasted youth
From up here I can see
The path that brought me home to me

Sacred Ground

[Verse 1]
You think you know the way
Up through the ancient stone
But every step you take
Just proves you’re not alone
The spirits call your name
From heights you’ve never seen
Come find me on this path
Where nothing’s as it seems

[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear them sing
Can you hear them sing
The old ones calling out

[Chorus]
We climb we climb we climb
To where the earth meets sky
We climb we climb we climb
Until we learn to fly
The mountain knows your heart
The mountain knows your soul
We climb we climb we climb
Until we’re finally whole

[Verse 2]
You feel the rhythm now
The drums beneath your feet
The fire in your chest
Makes every breath complete
I see you shake and fall
But still you rise again
The only way through
Is to embrace the pain

[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear them sing
Can you hear them sing
The old ones calling out

[Chorus]
We climb we climb we climb
To where the earth meets sky
We climb we climb we climb
Until we learn to fly
The mountain knows your heart
The mountain knows your soul
We climb we climb we climb
Until we’re finally whole

[Breakdown]
You wanted this
You needed this
The ceremony’s just begun
You wanted this
You needed this
We’ll face the rising sun

[Bridge]
Close your eyes and see
What was always there
In the sacred space
Between the earth and air
I’ll meet you at the top
Where silence speaks so loud
We’ll dance among the stars
Above the restless crowd

[Final Chorus]
We climb we climb we climb
To where the earth meets sky
We climb we climb we climb
Until we learn to fly
The mountain knows your heart
The mountain knows your soul
We climb we climb we climb
We climb we climb we climb
Until we’re finally whole
Until we’re finally whole

Voices from the Stone

[Intro]
Can you hear them calling from the stone?
Ancient voices, never alone
Brothers, sisters, bound by bone

[Instrumental build]

[Verse 1]
You came with calloused hands and weathered heart
Sacred souls assembling, ready to start
Burning braziers blaze beneath black sky
Brotherhood bound, we begin to fly
Each step we take, the earth shakes below
Forward, faithful, forced to grow

[Pre-Chorus]
Higher, higher, hearts unite
Climbing toward celestial light

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Verse 2]
You witness weathered warriors walking tall
Sacred stones supporting, sustaining all
Pounding pulse of primal prayer
Chanting chosen children climbing there
Breath becomes brief, but we won’t bend
Faithful followers fight till end

[Pre-Chorus]
Higher, higher, hearts unite
Climbing toward celestial light

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Chorus]
Can you feel the fire in your chest?
Rising with ten thousand blessed
Voices soaring, spirits soar
Can you hear us anymore?
Tell me now, can you believe?
(Can you believe?)
Tell me now, will you receive?
(Will you receive?)

[Coda]

Desert of Ancients

[Verse 1]
Under banners made of sand
Out where only secrets stand
Soft the ancient timber calls
Echoes rising over all

[Chorus]
I am the wind, carried on, flown free
Falsetto rise, lost in eternity
Circle of stones, firelight, shadow dance
Desert of ancients, caught in a trance

[Verse 2]
Moonlit banners, sage on the air
Stories entwined in the old oak’s hair
Caravan moving with rhythms unseen
I follow the mystery, I chase every dream

[Chorus]
I am the wind, carried on, flown free
Falsetto rise, lost in eternity
Circle of stones, firelight, shadow dance
Desert of ancients, caught in a trance

[Outro]
(Oh…) Breathe the night, hold the dawn
(Oh…) Never gone
(Oh…) Fading to song

Oasis of the Serpent

[Verse 1]
Black horizon burns, calling from beyond
Dust and thunder roll the caravan along
Twisted sun is rising, beckons ancient rites
Subtle danger weaving through the drifting night

[Chorus]
Serpent winding through the sand
Calling out the thunder band
Lost below the burning blue
All that’s left is chasing you

[Verse 2]
Saffron banners wave against the beating sky
Spirits flicker restless, stones begin to cry
Mirage on the skyline, ghost behind the glass
Ride until the morning where the dreamers pass

[Chorus]
Serpent winding through the sand
Calling out the thunder band
Lost below the burning blue
All that’s left is chasing you

[Bridge]
Heading where the shadows go
Onward through the undertow
Drums awaken desert’s heart
Thunder rolls and tears apart

[Outro]
Oasis on the border, serpent in the sand
Vaults of silence echo where the legends stand

Walk the Dust

[Verse 1]
I started walking when the sun was high
Dust on my boots and the sky so wide
Something calling from beyond the hill
My feet keep moving though my heart stands still

[Chorus]
Walk the dust, walk the dust
Till you find what you came here for
Walk the dust, walk the dust
Nothing’s quite the same anymore
Walk the dust, walk the dust

[Verse 2]
El viento sopla sobre la arena seca
Mi alma busca lo que no encuentra
Huellas perdidas en el desierto
Camino solo pero nunca muerto

[Chorus]
Walk the dust, walk the dust
Till you find what you came here for
Walk the dust, walk the dust
Nothing’s quite the same anymore
Walk the dust, walk the dust

[Verse 3]
The heat makes pictures dance before my eyes
Old voices echo from forgotten skies
My shadow’s longer than it used to be
But something’s rising up inside of me

[Bridge]
The wind stops blowing
The earth stops turning
Inside I’m knowing
My heart’s still burning
This dry ground teaches
What water couldn’t reach
The sun bleaches
But the soul it sets free

[Final Chorus]
Walk the dust, walk the dust
Now I know what I came here for
Walk the dust, walk the dust
I’m not who I was before
Walk the dust, walk the dust
Walk the dust, walk the dust

Burning Path

[Verse 1]
Can you feel the heat rising from the sand?
Brother, I’ve been walking since the dawn
Footprints disappearing in the wind
Ancient voices calling me along
Every step’s a prayer to something more
Than the ache that’s buried in my bones
Red rocks standing like cathedral doors
Leading to a place I’ve never known

[Chorus]
Where do we go when the sun burns away
Everything we thought we knew?
Where do we go when the stars light the way
To a version that is true?
Oh, oh, oh
La, la, la, la

[Verse 2]
Can you see the visions in the air?
Sister, I’ve been climbing toward the sky
Cactus flowers blooming everywhere
Sacred mountains reaching way up high
Water’s just a memory now, they say
But I taste rain on my cracked lips
Mirages dancing at the break of day
Showing me what I can’t let slip

[Chorus]
Where do we go when the sun burns away
Everything we thought we knew?
Where do we go when the stars light the way
To a version that is true?
Oh, oh, oh
La, la, la, la

[Bridge]
Three days lost, three nights found
Walking circles, sacred ground
What I was is burning down
In the fire, I am crowned

[Rap]
Listen close, the desert speaks in languages forgotten
Every grain of sand’s a word that time has never rotten
Been out here for hours, maybe days, I’ve lost all track
But something in my chest keeps pulling forward, won’t look back
The heat’s a teacher, pain’s a guide, and thirst becomes my prayer
I shed my skin like serpents do, leave pieces everywhere
Each sunrise is a judgment and each sunset is release
Walking toward whatever waits beyond this harsh peace
Can you hear it in the silence? Can you taste it in the dust?
This transformation burning through everything I thought I must
Hold onto, cling to, call my own – it’s melting in the heat
But from the ashes of my old self, something new’s taking feet

[Verse 3]
Can you hear the drumbeat in the stone?
Father, I’ve been dancing with the wind
No longer scared of facing this alone
The journey’s where the healing can begin
Stars above me spelling out my name
In constellations I have never seen
Nothing left will ever be the same
I understand what “holy” really means

[Chorus]
Where do we go when the sun burns away
Everything we thought we knew?
Where do we go when the stars light the way
To a version that is true?
Oh, oh, oh
La, la, la, la

[Outro]
Can you feel the heat rising from the sand?
Brother, sister, father – take my hand

Sand and Sun

[Verse 1]
Walking through the sand and sun
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Ancient stones beneath my feet
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Searching for what I can’t see
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Something calls me deeper in
Sand and sun

[Chorus]
I am walking
I am walking
Through the sand and sun
I am walking
I am walking
Till the day is done

[Verse 2]
Moon rises on the sand and sun
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Whispers from the ruins speak
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Spirits dancing in the heat
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Leading me to something real
Sand and sun

[Chorus]
I am walking
I am walking
Through the sand and sun
I am walking
I am walking
Till the day is done

[Breakdown]
Sand and sun
Sand and sun
Sand and sun
Sand and sun

[Bridge]
In the vastness I am small
In the silence I can hear
Everything I’m looking for
Everything I’m looking for
Is right here

[Verse 3]
Morning breaks on sand and sun
Sand and sun, sand and sun
I am not who I was before
Sand and sun, sand and sun
Something sacred in my bones
Sand and sun, sand and sun
I have found what I came for
Sand and sun

[Chorus]
I am walking
I am walking
Through the sand and sun
I am walking
I am walking
My journey’s done

Ancient Fire

[Intro]
[Eastern instruments build, distorted guitar enters]
Ohhhhh, ohhhh
Ancient fire burns
Burns, burns, burns

[Verse 1]
Walking through the burning sand
Ancient stones beneath my feet
Ancient stones beneath my feet
Sun beats down with desert heat
Desert heat, desert heat
Lost in time, lost in space
Following an ancient trace

[Chorus]
Fire in the sky, fire in my soul
Fire in the sky, makes me whole
Ancient fire burns inside
Ancient fire, ancient fire
Burns inside, burns inside

[Post-chorus]
Ohhhhh, ancient fire
Ancient fire burns
Burns, burns, burns

[Verse 2]
Stars above show me the way
Show me the way, show me the way
Ruins speak of yesterday
Yesterday, yesterday
Wisdom carved in weathered stone
Weathered stone, I’m not alone
Desert wind carries me home

[Chorus]
Fire in the sky, fire in my soul
Fire in the sky, makes me whole
Ancient fire burns inside
Ancient fire, ancient fire
Burns inside, burns inside

[Post-chorus]
Ohhhhh, ancient fire
Ancient fire burns
Burns, burns, burns

[Bridge]
Through the trial, through the pain
Through the pain, through the pain
Nothing left will be the same
Be the same, be the same
Ancient power in my veins
In my veins, breaks these chains
Breaks these chains

[Solo]
[Extended guitar solo with sitar and tabla]
Ahhhhh, ahhhhh
Ancient fire
Ancient fire

[Verse 3]
Dawn breaks over sacred ground
Sacred ground, sacred ground
Truth in silence, truth in sound
Truth in sound, truth in sound
Journey ends where it began
Where it began, I understand
Ancient fire in my hand

[Chorus]
Fire in the sky, fire in my soul
Fire in the sky, makes me whole
Ancient fire burns inside
Ancient fire, ancient fire
Burns inside, burns inside

[Post-chorus]
Ohhhhh, ancient fire
Ancient fire burns
Burns, burns, burns
Ancient fire burns
Burns inside

Fire Trial

[Verse 1]
You came here
For the calling
Ancient voices
In the sand

Red earth beneath
Your bleeding feet
The sun burns down
On weathered hands

Follow the path
Of burning stones
Where spirits dwell
In hollow bones

[Chorus]
Fire trial
Fire trial
Transform you
Through the heat

Fire trial
Fire trial
What you were
Won’t repeat

[Verse 2]
Stars awaken
Desert music
Tabla drums
Call your name

Electric winds
Through canyon walls
Nothing left
Will be the same

Sacred flames
Dance around you
Show the truth
Behind your eyes

[Chorus]
Fire trial
Fire trial
Transform you
Through the heat

Fire trial
Fire trial
What you were
Won’t repeat

[Bridge]
Walk the line
Between worlds
Old powers
Stir below

Feel the change
In your blood
Let the fire
Help you grow

[Verse 3]
Dawn breaks open
Desert silence
You emerge
From the flame

Reborn beneath
The morning light
Though you look
You’re not the same

Sacred ground
Has marked you
With the scars
Of inner sight

[Final Chorus]
Fire trial
Fire trial
Transformed you
Through the heat

Fire trial
Fire trial
Now you are
Complete

Sacred Sand – Part I

[Verse 1]
Standing at the threshold where the wind calls your name
Ancient voices rising from the burning plain
Feel the weight of calling in your beating chest
Time to walk the pathway, put your soul to test

[Chorus]
Sacred sand beneath your feet
Calling you to find what’s deep
Sacred sand, the trial begins
Let the transformation win

[Verse 2]
Strip away the armor that you wore before
Leave behind the comfort of familiar shore
Endless dunes are waiting for your faithful step
Face the wild horizon, breathe the fire’s breath

[Chorus]
Sacred sand beneath your feet
Calling you to find what’s deep
Sacred sand, the trial begins
Let the transformation win

[Verse 3]
Something stirs within you as the sun burns low
Ancient wisdom whispers what you need to know
Surrender to the journey, to the mystery
Feel your spirit changing, wild and finally free

Part II

[Verse 1]
Sand shifts beneath bare bleeding feet
Heat hammers down, heartbeat retreats
Dust devils dance, distant and deep
Can’t tell if I’m awake or asleep

[Chorus]
Mirage mind, mirages multiply
Time turns twisted, truth turns to lies
I’m burning, I’m breaking
Soul shaking, earth quaking
Find the fire inside

[Verse 2]
Scorching sun sets, stars start to shine
Ancient voices call through the pines
Cactus creatures creep in the cool
Thirst thinks it’s clever, thirst is no fool
Visions vivid, venom and vine
Testing, testing, crossing the line

[Chorus]
Mirage mind, mirages multiply
Time turns twisted, truth turns to lies
I’m burning, I’m breaking
Soul shaking, earth quaking
Find the fire inside

[Verse 3]
Darkness devours dawn’s dying breath
Dancing dangerously close to death
But buried beneath this bitter pain
Power pulses through poisoned veins
Sacred strength in suffering’s sting
I am more than mortal thing

Part III

[Intro]
(Oh-oh-oh-oh…)
Heavy dust clings to my tongue
Air thick, bass crawling slow

[Verse 1]
I walked till my will was breaking
Oud shivers through my bones
Sandstorms screaming my name
Every step leaves a mark I can’t hide
I lost a thousand faces in the heat
You saw me stripped past rage
There’s nothing but stone and sky and skin
Judgment pressed down from above

[Chorus]
I face the darkness, I let it in
(La—oh, la—oh)
Burned and broken, I rise again
Acceptance—scars in the sand
Acceptance—scars in the sand
Face the darkness, I let it in

(Breathing slow, trembling hands)

[Verse 2]
Pounding drums inside my chest
Waves of anguish, thick and low
Your voice was thunder in my distance
Calling out over barren plains
I gave up everything I carried
Truth was heavier than sin
Old wounds open—new ones forming
Every lesson costs a piece of me

[Chorus]
I face the darkness, I let it in
(La—oh, la—oh)
Burned and broken, I rise again
Acceptance—scars in the sand
Acceptance—scars in the sand
Face the darkness, I let it in

(Roaring organ, shaking hand)

[Verse 3]
Ash beneath my fingernails
Trembling sitar, body bends
I see your eyes in the horizon
Forgiveness—hard and slow
Wounds remember, they don’t fade
Faith comes after the fall
Desert silence—heavy ending
I’m not the same, I walk on

[Outro]
Acceptance—scars in the sand (repeat x10)
(Oh—la—oh, la—oh-oh)
Pounding my way—I walk on
Acceptance—scars in the sand
Thick and slow, breathe it through
(La—oh-la—oh… Acceptance—scars in the sand)
Every step, every line, every scar
Acceptance—scars in the sand

(Oh-oh-oh-oh… Acceptance—scars in the sand…)

Part IV (Instrumental)

Serpent’s Mirage (Instrumental)

Oasis of the Serpent (Instrumental Reprise)