Words and music © 2007 by Tom Maynard
Tom Maynard: Vocals, guitars
Valerie Thompson: Cello
Lyrics
The deed took all my heart
Consumed me completely,
Even the thought of you
I couldn’t even have started
If not so blinded by cold fury
It pierced me through and through
But then I held over my head
The sword, smeared and defiled
By the monster’s death
On the bull’s hoof a thread
All around me the cave’s silence broken
By my ragged breath
Refrain
You drew from me a vow
There on the floor it lay
It’s all I have left now
To help me find my way
The white thread as frail as the air
What was the Minotaur to me
Uncommon thief
To ransom my reason there
Far too little light to see
The dark webs, crumbling walls
Green and sucking pools
I stalked the dark unaware
Now I see though faint and dim
The far Earth, the Spring sun,
The slow wind’s sigh
A young woman fair and slim
A spool of thread
A promise unbroken
Leading back to the light
Refrain
Instrumental
Now I hold the thread and weep
Such a thin hope to bind
and guide me back
The rocks fall, the path is steep
The earth shakes, a shining strand leads me on
Through the mist cold and black
Refrain
You drew from me a vow
There on the floor it lay
It’s all I have left now
To help me find my way
The white thread a promise made
The white thread a promise upheld
Tom Maynard 