Circle O (Wild remix)

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Drums arrive from somewhere below the ground

and my feet learn a count that my mouth cannot name

Seven hands. Seven rhythms. One single pulse.

Somebody left a doorway open in the dark

I follow the low end down

It's a circle

and the circle keeps turning around

Pre-Chorus

Ooh what a spiral

what a strange and shifting time

Ooh what a spiral

nothing here arrives on the count of one

Chorus

A circle

Rounded circle

Circle O

Round and round and round we go

A circle

Rounded circle

Circle O

Round and round and round we go

Drop

A circle

Circle O

Verse 2

The bassline breathes like a body in sleep

I count in fives and the room counts in threes

my heartbeat argues with the hand drum's sway

nobody wins and nobody wants to leave

Somewhere a voice hums a village lullaby

It's a circle

and the circle refuses to close

Pre-Chorus

Ooh what a spiral

what a strange and shifting time

Ooh what a spiral

nothing here arrives on the count of one

Chorus

A circle

Rounded circle

Circle O

Round and round and round we go

A circle

Rounded circle

Circle O

Round and round and round we go

Breakdown

Slow the pulse now

let the skin drums fall away

I hear the smoke the strings the distant birds

polyrhythm in the marrow of the earth

Bridge

Powerful as thunder underground

Patient as a river finding stone

I am not the singer I am the sound

I am not the dancer I am the bone

Chorus

A circle

Rounded circle

Circle O

Round and round and round we go

A circle

Rounded circle

Circle O

Round and round and round we go

Drop

A circle

Circle O

Outro

It's a circle

It's a circle

Rounded circle

Circle O