I laid a circle of cedar and salt I laid a circle of cedar and salt To bind the secret the winter had caught I asked the moon to turn its face I asked the moon to turn its face So nothing could hunt my tracks to this place The boundary is thin The boundary is thin Where the living world ends and the old ones begin Oh, the shadow is tall and the shadow is cold Where the woods breathe out and the darkness takes hold He's standing on water, he's walking on bone With the frost of the ages claiming his throne His eyes are two stones from a frozen riverbed His eyes are two stones from a frozen riverbed He knows the names that the ancestors said I gave him my name written on a dry leaf I gave him my blood written on a dry leaf He gave me a hunger that is deeper than grief What the circle holds, the circle must keep What the North wind takes goes endlessly deep I am walking between, I am walking between The world that you know and the world unseen Oh, the shadow is tall and the shadow is mine Where the woods breathe out at the end of all time I'm standing on water, I'm walking on air With the frost of the ages woven in my hair The moon is hidden... The circle is open... What the Northland gives, nobody knows.
