The original version of Crystal Castles has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing.

Listen to Crystal Castles ver. 002 by Richard Charles Stevens (Stone’s Throw Suite)

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Believe it
.
Believe it
.
Believe in me
Believe in you
Believe that we can see this through
Believe that we can paint the skies
With every colour shade and hue
Believe in me
Appreciably
And by the tides of ceaseless sea
I may make a believer
A believer out of you
(Believe it)
.
See me through
I’m crystalline
And such need not be trivialised
For precious few reflect as I
And yet I’m glanced through distal eyes
The brittle ice about my heart
Is liquefied
As I embark on visualising through my art
Each part of my design
Using brush strokes broad and fine
I decorate each canvas
With exactness and abstraction
From the frame that reins inaction
Like a bird
I seek migration
Unforeseen of altercation
To a place where faith is stationed
In the wake of great expansion
.
Hands-on as I stoke the flame
Which blazes in us all
In the hope
That one lost soul
May heed begotten call
To soften fall
And steep the rise
Of undistracted eagle flight
Soaring
Scoring skies to prize
Each captive freed of equal height
.
Hands-on as I stoke the flame
Which blazes in us all
In the hope
That one lost soul
May heed begotten call
To soften fall
And steep the rise
Of undistracted eagle flight
Soaring
Scoring skies to prize
Each captive freed of equal height
.
Believe in me
Believe in you
See us through
We’re crystalline
In every colour shade and hue
We’re fluid whence we liquefy
Should we be viewed through distal eyes
Then we can lead them true
And famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
.
Famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
Famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
Should we be viewed through distal eyes
Then we can lead them true
And famed be the believers we renew
.
Every day that passes
Sees me deepen as an artist
In my keep I hold the souls of old
And each extolled as masterpiece
Sweeping bold through arteries
The essence of the brave
And I am merely vessel keen to bleed them from my veins
.
Hopes and dreams in reach
Exceeding deeds signed by the ghost of me
Life once leased now owned
Condoning ghostly hands that groped at me
Lotus flower unfurled
Revealing pearls of wisdom openly
Stems of vintage red raised high in toast to me
.
Deal in souls
Not stealing souls
Revealing goals
Not heaping coals
In keeping with a soul exposed to say no to competing roles
.
Deal in souls
Not stealing souls
Revealing goals
Not heaping coals
In keeping with a soul exposed to say no to competing roles
.
Believe in me
Believe in you
Believe that we can see this through
Believe that we can paint the skies
With every colour shade and hue
Believe in me
Appreciably
And by the tides of ceaseless sea
I may make a believer
A believer out of you
(Believe it)
.
Believe in me
Believe in you
See us through
We’re crystalline
In every colour shade and hue
We’re fluid whence we liquefy
Should we be viewed through distal eyes
Then we can lead them true
And famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
.
Breaking chains to wake to life
My vital signs then stabilise
Heartbeat nowise plagiarised
Starfleet in dilated eyes
Should pain exceed the gain
Then ever heedful I remain
Yet see no reason to abstain
From reprising most primeval of refrains
.
Famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
Famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
Should we be viewed through distal eyes
Then we can lead them true
And famed be the believers we renew
.
Here within the river
I’m delivered to the other me
Lovely from top to bottom
Shrubbery in sunny blossom
Oceans deep and wide confide of princely tides arising often
Creeping vines of steep incline
Gliding each receding line
.
Creeping vines of steep incline
Gliding each receding line
Pacifying weeping eyes
Fingertips of healing shrine
After life comes death defying
Testifying Zion
Roaming free of enclave
With the brave and pride of lion
.
Hands-on as I stoke the flame
Which blazes in us all
In the hope
That one lost soul
May heed begotten call
To soften fall
And steep the rise
Of undistracted eagle flight
Soaring
Scoring skies to prize
Each captive freed of equal height
.
Believe in me
Believe in you
See us through
We’re crystalline
In every colour shade and hue
We’re fluid whence we liquefy
Should we be viewed through distal eyes
Then we can lead them true
And famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
.
Famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
Famed be the believers we renew
(Believe it)
Should we be viewed through distal eyes
Then we can lead them true
And famed be the believers we renew
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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