Song
Forest Gods
From Sea / Soil / Sky · Track 2 · 2022
The middle track of “Sea / Soil / Sky.”
Lyrics · artist-supplied
The deepest forest we've ever known
It comes around when we're all alone
There's a chance
That we'll get pulled
By every branch
And they will pull
All of us down
To the soil
Into the soul
That's where we'll grow
A place to call home
It's already known
But it's not set in stone
That we're said to grow
Much better alone
Waist deep in the soil
Into the soil
Into the soul
The poison
We poured in
Our hollow
Has slowed us down
The empire
Has chosen
A sacred combination
Into the soil
Into the soul
That's where we'll end up
That's where we'll grow
Into the soil
A place to call home
Working interpretation · analysis
Interpretation note: This section is analysis/inference, not an authoritative statement of authorial intent unless the Artist Context above says otherwise.
The title strongly suggests the “Soil” or terrestrial movement of the triptych. “Gods” gives the forest agency and hierarchy, making humans feel like visitors inside a much older system. A likely thematic axis is reverence versus domination: whether nature is resource, environment, or something with claims of its own.
Themes
forest, nature, land, animism, human scale