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I got them tattooed to my chest in reverse, so I can read them in the mirror.  Just kidding, but I printed them too 

Yeah some of the specifics are foggy, but I love the subtle advantages of the lyrics being poetry.  For example, there's repetition of themes like planting, watering, growing and the fact that it's poetry about a poet.

Also, I looked it up and "Hubardo" means "lamp" or "lantern" in Enochian, and I think the idea is that the poet is being guided throughout the story.

My understanding of it: 

The poet finds the meteor that fell, which the townspeople have denounced as evil. The poet thinks it's beautiful and takes it home (all this is covered by songs 1-4).  In song 5, Zlida Caosgi, it sounds like he is losing his sh*t, but I think the lyrics deal with the beginning of the "alchemical change" part of the story.  What is actually happening though is anyones guess. 

Now, from this point on, it would make a lot more sense if everything was metaphorical (or on the astral plane or something... the point of it is that it's the most intimate, introverted, and transcendent space there is, which is the realm of poetry) for the poet's alchemical transformation, as triggered by the meteor.  In song 6, he goes to a secluded forest grove, and this is where the rest of the story takes place.  In song 7, The Second Operation, is the turning point and key phrase in the transformation process: "Before he learned the poet's truth that life will never yield to Will".  At this point, he finds the stream that grew in the grove, builds a boat and floats down the river.  In song 10 (Passing the River), I think the boy that is referred to is the poet himself, that he is being "reborn".  In the last song, The Wait of the World, he dies.

There's my take on it at this point, and I'd love to hear other interpretations or elaborations.