The Firelight Prayer

Verse 1

Osiyo oginali

Hear my voice across the ridge

Seven names I whisper low

For the one who lit the forge

We say the songs our mothers sang

Before the rivers learned their names

Before the oak bowed down and bent

When every stone had tongues to spend

Chorus

Seven names for the maker

Sing them in the firelight

Wind and thunder and the water

All bear witness through the night

Call him when the sky grows dark

And the wild ones hold their breath

Verse 2

Unethlana on the rise

Where the morning cuts the mist

Old ones told me not to run

From the hand that shaped the west

I knelt beside a hollow stone

Asked the canyon what it knew

It answered back in gusts of rain

And echoed what our fathers drew

Chorus

Seven names for the maker

Sing them in the firelight

Wind and thunder and the water

All bear witness through the night

Call him when the sky grows dark

And the wild ones hold their breath

Bridge

One for mercy one for might

One for every field of stone

One that rides the lightning high

One that walks the spirit home

Chorus

Seven names for the maker

Sing them in the firelight

Wind and thunder and the water

All bear witness through the night

Call him when the sky grows dark

And the wild ones hold their breath

Outro

Osiyo oginali

Osiyo oginali

Osiyo oginali