What is “Crystal Wire” about?
"Crystal Wire" imagines a body wired to the northern sky, nerves turned into live current and silver sparks running along the spine. The arc runs from cold to warmth, with diamonds cracking through the snow as the image of something frozen breaking open, and the chorus asks only to be taken higher. Placed sixth on Solstice Light, right after the confessional "Signal Fire," it returns to the record's electric imagery while keeping the winter landscape in view.
Crystal Wire lyrics
Frozen lines beneath the skin
Something sharp is pulling in
Wired up to the northern sky
Crystal signal burning high
Feel it building feel it grow
Diamonds cracking through the snow
Crystal wire crystal wire
Take me higher take me higher
Light the dark and feed the fire
Crystal wire crystal wire
Silver sparks along my spine
Every nerve a live design
Running faster than the storm
Breaking cold to something warm
Feel it building feel it grow
Diamonds cracking through the snow
Crystal wire crystal wire
Take me higher take me higher
Light the dark and feed the fire
Crystal wire crystal wire
We transmit
We ignite
Crystal wire crystal wire
Take me higher take me higher
Light the dark and feed the fire
Crystal wire crystal wire