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Three Peaks

by Toby Driver

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Begun in 2019 and shelved because it had no home, wandering, much like the song's narrator. Written at the same time as Alora Crucible's "Thymiamatascension," this song is in the "pop new age" style inspired by Oystein Sevag and Sting, and is more suited to a release under the singer-songwriter banner of Toby Driver's recent solo material.

lyrics

Three peaks where two fires of memory are burning
And one waits lonely and forgot
We all are living in a land where the sacred is gone
The cold stones calling my returning
Three sides of a prism and its light enclosing
The Adder Reservoir where I've never been
I want to go and I know that I'll find something there
I walked the path decades not knowing

I saw the first one in a memory
A quiet ceremony up by the quarry
The howling second under Gemini
Unchained the spirit while the skies were starry

The third has been calling to me alone
With a fire I have dreamed in the resting wood
Where the boon of the brook sent a fawn and a flame
Hidden by the highway I heard my name
At the unseen point at the center of the shape
I'll undress myself where there is no road
Where the boon of the brook sent a fawn and a flame
Hidden by the highway I learned my name

A life untitled, wandering, unwinding
In the court of the hills in trine

Dreaming fire but drowning in faith
Watching waves of time
Hey, ah

My winter's writing was the third peak's climbing
Twenty-five years to see the sign

Dreaming fire but drowning in faith
Watching waves of time
Hey, ah

credits

released June 15, 2022
Toby Driver - voice, guitars, fretless bass, synths, hammer dulcimer, percussion
David Bodie - drums

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Toby Driver at Haunted Steps, Connecticut
Drums recorded by Randall Dunn at Figure 8, Brooklyn NY, in summer 2019
Cover artwork by Toby Driver

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Kayo Dot (and the music of Toby Driver) Middlefield, Connecticut

KAYO DOT is an undefinable band led by composer Toby Driver. All the other projects and titles on this page are also the work of Toby Driver. Several additional titles are also available exclusively through our subscription service.

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