Holy Dirt

Holy Dirt Album Lyrics

Holy Dirt by Valkyrie Phoenix is an ethereal, singer songwriter album with folk, multi-layer vocal and electronic nuances that journey through the raw and emotive lyrical spaces of betrayal, disillusionment, crisis, longing for home, death, rebirth, genocide and sacredness. Holy Dirt was produced and recorded by Valkyrie Phoenix and will be officially released and available on all platforms on 6/20/24.

Original Lyrics by Valkyrie Phoenix (VKX)

Run

Run, run, run

My fate is unsung

Just a little bit more

And I can't ignore

How I run, run, run

Run, run, run

Run

Run, run, run,

Run, run, run

Run

I'm out to catch me

If I can

Moving on is how

I make my stand

The temperature drops

As mine rises

And maybe I'll go back

To let myself unpack

But for now I

Gotta run

Run, run, run

Run

Run, run, run

Run

I'm out to catch me

If I can

Moving on is how

I make my stand

The story tells itself

In the wake of dust

Behind me

It speaks in tongues

Of all that I have seen

And how I run, run, run

Run, run

Run, Run

Run, run, run

Run

And how I

Run, run, run

Run, run

Run

Holy Dirt

What if the unknown is really home

And familiarity the vice

What if pilgrimage is the medicine

To unearth our inner Christ

Oh, what of holy dirt

That cleanses the river within

What of gentle earth

That knows all of where I've been

And I am found

Within the ground

And I am found

Within this ground

Oh, what of holy dirt

What of holy dirt

What if losing my way means finding it

What if trusting means to allow

What if this accidental pilgrimage

Holds the key to my greatest now

Oh, what of holy dirt

That cleanses the river within

What of gentle earth

That knows all of where I've been

And I am found

Within the ground

And I am found

Within this ground.

What of holy dirt

And I surrender

To its truest

Parable work

And I, I

I surrender

And I am found

I am found

Within the ground

And I am found

I am found

Within the ground

Oh, what of holy dirt

What of holy dirt

Sky Woman

Sky woman

Where are you going

Sky woman

Earthly showing

Sky woman

Bear the wind

Sky woman

Heaven sent

Fall

To the earth

Descend

To us all

Fall to the earth

And teach

Us all

Sky Woman

Mother Goddess true

Disappear into the moon

Dance

With the stars now

The sun

Knows who you are

Sky woman

Paint the sky

Sky woman

Fly

Fall

To the earth

Descend

To us all

Fall

To the earth

And free us all

Sky woman

Where are you going

Sky woman

Earthly showing

Sky woman

Take Me Home

I am ready to be buried

And step into my own

To give back to the land

All she's given me in stone

Lay me down with the trees

When all that's exiled

Calls to me

Sweep me into her wild

Take me home

Send the Valkyries to me

And may they carry me to peace

From this battle ground

I lay my last intention down

The only thing I'm leaving

Is what's already left

All my seeing, all my believing

And my soul accepts

Take me home

Burn

I asked my love, I asked my faith

I asked my God, where have you gone

I asked my words, I asked my fear

But none of them would lend their ear

So I closed my eyes

Where is it the forgotten go

When they can't forget themselves

Where is it the forsaken hide

When all their hearts have ashes inside

And I know this tortured fortune

Too well

Burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn, burn, burn,

Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn

They live it in the burn, burn

They love it in the burn, burn

They keep it in the burn, burn

And they never let it go

Never let it go

I asked my dreams, I asked my screams

I asked my mind

What makes this fire

I asked my soul, I wanted to know

But all it said is

Watch it glow

So I struck a match

Where is it the forgotten go

When they can't forget themselves

Where is it the forsaken hide

When all their hearts have ashes inside

And I know tortured fortune

Too well

Burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn

Burn, burn

They live it in the burn, burn

They love it in the burn, burn

They keep it in the burn, burn

And they never let it go

Never let it go

Burn, burn,

They live in it in the burn, burn

They love it in the burn, burn

They keep it in the burn, burn

And they never let it go

Never let it go

Burn

Beautiful Tool

And you

Were the finest illusion

I never saw

If art is a lie

That paints the truth

You painted me

Exquisitely

Beautiful tool

Fucking tool, beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool

And masterpiece

That you must be

You reflected me

So perfectly

I see myself

In clarity

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool, beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool

And thank you

I must let you go

Before you take me down

Work of dark

You revealed me

So precariously

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool, beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool, beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful tool

Beautiful fucking tool, beautiful fucking tool

Beautiful tool

All the World's a Fraud

Stand here, sit there

It doesn't seem to matter, where

It's the same tired carnival

Going on

All the rides are thrilling

But none of them fulfilling

And I know, I've reached

My gone

And all the world

All the world's a fraud

Trying to play God

Where is there to go

When all the players are disrobed

And nothing is for real

They say it's lonely at the top

But no one talks about the way up

When it's not what I sought

And not at all what I thought

Why did it have to break my heart

Pretending to be something that it's not

Why is all the world

All the world

Such a fraud

How alone it all feels

Living in a moving picture

That steals

Where the boundary of the frame

Begs my escape

Where do angels fall

When there's no one else to call

And nothing left

To fake

And all the world

All the world's a fraud

Trying to play God

Where is there to go

When all the players are disrobed

And nothing is for real

They say it's lonely at the top

But no one talks about the way up

When it's not what I sought

And not at all what I thought

Why did it have to break my heart

Pretending to be something that it's not

Why is all the world

All the world

Such a fraud

Trying to play God

Such a fraud

And why is all the world

Such a fraud

Trying to play God

Where is there to go

When all the players are disrobed

And nothing is for real

They say it's lonely at the top

But no one talks about the way up

When it's not what I sought

And not at all what I thought

Why did it have to break my heart

Pretending to be something that it's not

Why is all the world

All the world

Such a fraud

Trying to play God

Such a fraud

Why is all the world

All the world

Such a fraud

Follow the Rio Grande Home

The wind has turned

But not turned me

It's picking up fast

Like a tumbleweed

As I curve with the earth

It's all I see

Will she love me

Or will she not

She hasn't broken me yet

But taken all I got

Put a dagger to my throat

But still I spoke

And I know when it's time

To follow

The Rio Grande home

Sagebrush lead, and don't look back

Where the mountains meet the valley

Is where I'm at

Snow capped

I'm tapped

And I don't need a map

Cause it's in all I see

Will she love me

Or will she not

She hasn't broken me yet

But taken all I got

Put a dagger to my throat

But still I spoke

And I know when it's time

To follow the Rio Grande home

Think quick, like quicksand

And wind with the land

Think quick, like quicksand

And wind

And follow

Will she love me

Or will she not

She hasn't broken me yet

But taken all I got

Put a dagger to my throat

But still I spoke

And I know when it's time

To follow

To follow the Rio Grande home

Follow the Rio Grande

Home

No Glory

Cowboy ride on

Cowboy ride fast

There's no erasing

The past from the past

Living in an old painting

Of how the west was won

Is only so romantic

When it's blackened out

The sun

Cause there's no glory

In the face of the past

Forget what we thought was won

All our souls were lost

A dance of dying

In a fated frontier

Made us all disappear

And the spirit left here

Long ago

Cause there's no glory

In the face of the past

The past

Now there's nothing left to take

Ride long, ride long

It's all too late

Cowboy ride on

Cowboy ride fast

There's no erasing

The past from the past

Cause there's no glory

No, there's no glory

Ride into the sky

Burdened no more

By legend or myth

Ride or die

Cowboy, ride

Cowboy ride on

Cowboy ride fast

There's no erasing

The past from the past

Cause there's no glory

No, there's no glory

No glory

In the face of the past

The past

Cause there's no glory

Albatross

And maybe, I'll come back

From being tossed about at sea

When her waters fiercely wash me

Up to shore and make me clean

May I feel the grains of sand

Pressed warmly on my face

As the sun dances on my body

Finishing the race

And I let myself surrender

And I let myself be thrown

And I let myself drowned

Like it's all I've ever known

May I know it was a gift

To be shipwrecked at heart

To let the water levels rise within

So I could be torn apart

And I'm honored by her storm

Her unrelenting bitter rage

And how she set me free

From the burden of my cage

And I let myself surrender

And I let myself be thrown

And I let myself drowned

Like it's all I've ever known

And I let myself surrender

And I let myself be thrown

And I let myself drowned

Like it's all I've ever known

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Holy Dirt

Holy Dirt Album Lyrics

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Original Lyrics by Valkyrie Phoenix (VKX)

Run

Holy Dirt

Sky Woman

Take Me Home

Burn

Beautiful Tool

All the World's a Fraud

Follow the Rio Grande Home

No Glory

Albatross