Isis visits lucius while he dreams and speaks to him of the transformation to come.

Isis:

Hey boy wake I’m coming down from above
Hey boy wake I’m coming down
Hey boy wake I’m coming down from above
Hey boy wake I’m coming down
Come in close, hold my hand now boy
Lay your worry down
Lay it down and pick up on mine

2. Peaches (3:12)

Lucius arrives in Hypata and goes ’swimming’ in the wild and mysterious revelry of the city. He catches sight of Pamphile the witch changing into an owl in the distance. Craving magic and curious with excitement he follows her slave girl, Fotis home.

Lucius:

Now I’m here, I see the signs
Where o where’s my signal somewhere, who can take me higher
and its clear when you see the signs
Inside we know how to fly, we all know how to . . .
anyway I like it, I’m chomping through a peach, listen to that crazy cat faced girl on the boiling street,
what a wonderful world to motor around on.
wonder why all the signs on the side of the road want you to settle down,
anyway I like it, my home is out of reach, tonight when I sleep it could be in a room with someone I just met, it’s the heaviest of pockets,
so easy like the sugar, oh the south is melting to my skin, my mind is slipping under,
the peach is running over and over, over and over again

Now I’m here I see the signs
Where o where’s my signal somewhere who can take me higher
and its clear when you see the signs
Inside we know how to fly, we all know how to . . .
anyway I like it, my home is out of reach, tonight when I sleep it could be in a room with someone I just met,
it’s the heaviest of pockets, so easy like the sugar, oh the south is melting to my skin, my mind is slipping under,
the peach is running over and over, over and over again

3. Fly This Cage (5:24)

Fotis comes home from collecting ingredients for a magic spell. She is a puppet to her dark master and imagines the world granting her wish for freedom. She grows roses for her mistress Panphile’s to use in her dark incantations. Lucius is enchanted while watching Fotis use her small charm to grow the roses. Just as he is about to drift off to sleep, Lucius sees Pamphile change herself into an owl and fly out the window.

Fotis:

I wish a wind would blow this house to pieces and I wish a wind would drag this place away.
I want the lightning to crack and smash this house to cinders .
Oh I wish a wind to drag this place away,
This heart of mine wants to beat itself, out of its cage
Send me, send me someone, send me someone to fly this cage
Send me, send me someone, send me someone to fly this cage
I pray a flood will drag this house a distance and I pray a flood will drag this place away.
wake up, wake up, you best beware this evening cause my wish is with the one who swings the day
This heart of mine wants to beat itself, out of its cage
Send me, send me someone, send me someone to fly this cage

4. They Met (4:28)

The next morning, Lucius awakes, bewitched by what he has seen. Drawn to the magic he has witnessed and intrigued by Fotis, he finds himself knocking on the door, asking for room and board. She invites him in and feeds him. The two find something they are both searching for in each others arms, and the night ends with them sleeping in Fotis’ room.

Narrator:

They met, he saw an owl fly from her window
His hand grabbed the handle, her finger pressed the doorbell,
And that’s how his love set her free, her love would change him
She smiled, he told her that he was just needing a bed
She felt he had a secret that was dark and beautiful
And that’s how his love set her free, her love would change him
She lit a candle to light up the room, he watched her from the corner
He saw how she moved and she moved, and he went back to reading his own book, she reached above him to light up a lamp, her hips they brushed the table
A wine glass fell to the ground, and somewhere a record was spinning
They slept, their two hearts dreamt in different ways
One heart flew to the sun, one heart it stayed home
And that’s how his love set her free, her love would change him
And that’s how his love set her free, her love would change

5. Beautiful Secret (5:20) PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED in regards to this video.

Pamphile is an expert in the arts of dark magic. She weaves a deep and sinister spell. Recalling her youth when- she gave up love for her menacing, magical powers. Enticed by the call of Pamphile's wraithes, Lucius wakes from his sleep and is lured upstairs to see Pamphile transform again into an owl. The desire to fly takes root in his soul.
Meanwhile Lucius, Fotis and the entire town of Hypata become entrenched in Pamphile’s smoky omnipotent incantation, causing lusty, erotic sex and malicious, eratic violence.

Pamphile:

I keep a beautiful secret inside my beautiful head
Beautiful secret change me into a beautiful bird
Some lust is evil, some lust is silent, and some lust is dark
I keep the beautiful secret close to the lust in my heart
Once the sun was in my life now I can’t seem to remember what it is
Once we spoke those words, I don’t need to remember what we said
And baby, what makes this secret so sweet, freedom, I’m free to fly like an owl
Up and out
I keep a beautiful secret inside my beautiful head
Beautiful secret’s been there since the night they found my lover dead
Come in closer, let me tell you the truth of my power
I gave the life of my lover so I could fly like an owl
Once the sun was in my life now I can’t seem to remember what it is
Once we spoke those words, I don’t need to remember what we said
And baby, what makes this secret so sweet, freedom,free to fly like an owl
Up and out

6. Change (4:41)

Lucius is enchanted. He gazes at Pamphiles jars full of potion. He begs Fotis to turn him into a bird. Full of forbodding Fotis follows Lucius into Pamphile’s chamber. She rubs ointment on Lucius to perform the spell.Lucius looks into the mirror with of anticipation. Soon they both realize something has gone awry. Lucius is not becoming a bird. He has transformes instead into an ass.

Lucius:

Color me red, Color me right
Color me red, only you can change me lady
Color me right, get me get me changing
Color me red, only you can change me lady
Color me right, get me get me changing
Rub it all on to me, Hey I believe
Rub it all on to me Hey I believe it
Oh I feel different its starting in my heart, keep me close, keep me awake, keep me right here making this thing real, tonight, this wind sounds like a train
I come down to the city, want to change into a bird, make it easy to fly the city at night faster than the rabbit runs the field, tonight, this wind sounds like a train
It’s a fever working, on my insides, I didn’t know that change was hard like this
Roll me quick my love, for I see these, these looks of mine are nothing like I thought they’d be, nothing like I thought they’d be, oh I’m changing to a bird
It’s better than any lie, lies are little, its better than living my life in the middle, when I feel, tonight, this wind sounds like a train
It’s a fever working, on my insides, I didn’t know that change was hard like this
Roll me quick my love, for I see these, these looks of mine are nothing like I thought they’d be, nothing like I thought they’d be, oh I’m changing . . .
I’m not a . . . not a . . . not a bird, I’m not a bird

7. Rose I Need (2:51)

Lucius and Fotis stare into each others eyes in disbelief. Fotis finds the error and tells Lucius that they forgot the rose petals. Pamphile arrives and finds the two in her chamber. She sells Lucius to some travelers and sends Fotis to be imprisoned in a tower far away.

8. The Wind (3:34)_

Lucius learns about donkey life with the coming of autumn. He experiences the cruelty of the world and the weakness of humankind. He goes through a period of observation and servitude.

Narrator

Wind casts him out on a trail, while the leaves leave the trees like tears
Shadows smudge on the paper, it used to be written so clear
Wind on her face in the tower, while the leaves take their freedom and fly,
In the air, all have a color, to spill out her name in the sky

Fotis and Lucius

Who am I now? Who will it be? I can’t take my eyes off the road
Who am I now? Who will it be? I can’t take my eyes off the road
Who am I now? Who will it be? Beating this heart from a soul
Who am I now? Who will it be? Beating this heart, beating this heart

9. Move My Blood (4:56)_

Cold and alone, Fotis dreams of the only love she has ever known, Lucius. The moon takes pity on her and reveals the magic roses that lay still in her pocket with a bit of Pamphile’s potion. All her hope for love, life and freedom, she takes from her pocket and plants in the earth that lies so far below her isolated tower. Through the winter she waits for her magic rose to grow the height of her tower.

Fotis:

Moon is rising like a yellow sugarpiece
’Check your pockets girl’ she whispers sweetly to me,
My hand it shivers tonight and its holding what I need
How he moves my blood
Out here in the darkness, your heart is all you need
Out here we watch the fireflies dance to a sticky tune on the wind
His voice counts the skylights to a tune of sweet release
How he moves my blood with his sweetness is how I want to feel
Tonight loving him is like having honey on my teeth
How I’ve hungered for somebody sweet
Inside the radio plays with the music humming deeply
Inside this cold dark cell, I wake up from a sweet dream
What’s in my pocket, is my freedom in a seed, let them grow a
Rose by the seasons, that’s how I’ll make me free
Tonight, loving him is like having honey on my teeth
How I’ve hungered for somebody sweet
How I’ve hungered for somebody sweet

10. Winter (3:26)_

When his young master is killed by a wild animal, Lucius is now alone on his path with the onset of winter. He gets stuck in snow storm and accepts that he will die as he hears hungry wolves howling in the distance.

Lucius:

Cruel how it seems, all my achings tease
What is done is done, and what is blood is blood
Scared in the night, winter haunts inside
What is gone is gone, and what is blood is blood
And what is blood is blood, and what is blood is blood
I see the river, frozen in the quiet
And I see the white field resting in the night
But under the whispers, a dream is holding tight
And under the winter, the water runs, the water runs
Strange how it seems, all my achings freeze
What is done is done when my time has come
When my time has come, when my time has come,
when my time has come

11. Farmer Song (3:43)_

A farmer finds Lucius in the snowstorm and brings him home. As the farmer nurses him back to health, Lucius begins to experience a feeling of safety with his new friend. When spring finally arrives, they go outside and begin working the fields. Soldiers approach and start trouble. They kill the farmer and take Lucius away. The soldiers take Lucius to town and sell him to a circus owner.
Meanwhile, with the coming of spring, Fotis’ magic rose has grown the length of the tower.
Using ointment she has taken from Pamphile, Fotis turns herself into an owl and flies out the window.

Farmer:

You don’t have to worry anymore
Way I see things, now one has to worry anymore
I plant my seeds and let it rain down on them, rain
Eat some oats they’ll keep you warm
Oats herbs and veggies seem to make the winter warm
I plant my seeds and let it rain down on them, rain

12. Rolling (4:38)

The circus owner discovers that Lucius can perform humanlike moves, and he makes him a dancing donkey star. Lucius revels in his new found fame. They perform all across the countryside and Fotis follows them after seeing a poster of Lucius. Lucius drinks champagne and parties with the ladies in the circus. Not long after the glitter of fame fades, the experience gets overwhelming, even sickening - and Lucius runs away.

Lucius:

I come looking to change, oh they made me do it
So what’s today? Everybody seems to know me where I go
But I feel so far away from when we were pure and wonderful
That wonder faded, and I’m rolling, oh and I’m rolling
And I’m dancing in a show, now there’s no way out of it
How could I not know, I was born to play this part
Now I’m rolling, nothing scares me anymore
See how I just changed, the way we treat each other
See how they just changed what I forever have come to know
I feel so far away from when we were pure and wonderful
That wonder faded, and I’m rolling, oh and I’m rolling
And I’m dancing in a show, now there’s no way out of it
How could I not know, I was born to play this part
Now I’m rolling, nothing scares me, nothing scare’s me, scare’s me
Scare’s me

13. Ocean (3:13)_

As a tumultuous storm tears through the sky, Lucius runs toward the full moon and is lead to the ocean. He plunges in, cursing the foolish decisions that lead on this path. Fotis following from the sky, watches his tormented soul sinking into the into the turbulent sea. Tightly gripping the rose petal in her mouth she dives in after him. All goes dark. Two white birds emerge from the black, and as they glow, all becomes white.

Lucius:

Moon, all I have is you, who knows how to light the way back home
Light the way on to the ocean
Window in the night will you know to light the way back home
Light the way on to the ocean

Fotis:

Free, I am flying free soul wide open she taught me how to find my way on to the Ocean.
She, she taught me how to fly, help me fly to him
Teach me how to find my way back home

Lucius and Fotis:

Moon, I know you, you can light the way back home
Moon, I know you, you can light the way back home . . .
14. The Rose (1:37)