I have seen a dance of shadows
darker than the darkest night
touched by madness i have swirled
the pirouette of death
wakened by a black rose blooming
in the frozen fields of sleep
i have known such pain and pleasure
ecstasy and fear
i have seen a strange procession
mourners of the ice-kissed soul
i have known and i have suffered
Moor the houses, lay low all masts and poles
Shear down the trees, anchor your barks
Gather your children and pray that they will be there when dawn breaks
Sound all your warning bells, cry for the lost sailors at sea
They are the first who will know what a storm can be
You will remember me, you will remember me
I am the scar upon your soul
I am the voice that speaks, I am the voice that speaks
I am the silence that precedes
The turning, the end of everything
All you have loved, all you have built
All that you are will be taken away by me
Who loved you with ever rising force
I will not stop what I unleash
Mine is the fire that devours what it most desires
Lost on a raging sea, lost on a raging sea
Looking for a way out, for a stirring in my soul
Trying to remember things you told me long ago
So long have I waited for a riddle to unsolve
People call me crazy, they have left me in the cold
But I can't leave it all behind
No I can't leave it all behind
How can you leave it all behind?
Oh I have touched it with my mind
Oh can you touch it with your mind?
Oh can you touch it with your mind?
Frozen by the fire I have looked into the flame
Now my eyes are crystal that will melt if I forget
Cannot turn away now, cannot shield my blinded heart
For I have touched it with my soul
Yes I have touched it with my soul
Oh I have touched it with my soul
And I can never walk away
No can you leave what you have found
Sleep in the grass
Let the silence embrace me
Time took her in, with his loveless desire
Sang her a sweet lullaby
Frail as a ghost
She was fading so slowly
I knew she was leaving me soon
Then with a smile and a whisper she kissed me
"Claire, I will come for you soon"
We heard the tolling of bells in the distance, I begged her not to stray
But in the morning this house was half empty, she found her bed in the grass
Mornings are pale
And the sea side deserted
Summer has left me behind
I hope that Sally will know where to find me
If she comes looking for me
I hear her whispers through radio static, I see her face in the clouds
And in the morning this house will be empty
I feel the push of a stormfront, look to a darkening sky overhead
See as the first drop of water pierces electrified air
Turn back to the thunder that calls
Now the swallows fly low to the ground
She smiles in the dead of the night
And the lightning rides high on the storm
I see the black clouds in your eyes
Clouds in Eden, drowning paradise
Heaven has opened it's flood gates, rain has been pouring for days
Telephone lines are all dead
Sally, by candlelight, stares
She stares at the fire that burns, while the world is extinguished by gales
Sally, with a joyful despair, is the storm that has laid my heart bare
I see the dark love in her eyes
The end of the night seems so long and hard to bear
And the blood upon my hand cannot be my own
Wait for the chance that has been given to you
Now leave this obstacle of fate
Walk across the field of light
Leaving no traces on it's ground
Dream tomorrow, come inside with us
For this second is now captured and frozen
In a secret place, hidden from the day
Time is everything
It stands it's strain
Feel the darkness drawing near
Breathe it's air
Like the rain that falls
Broken up yet frequently...
Just one last touch
As the curtain falls down
To halt the wheel in it's endless spinning
Hold twilight until dawn
To stop the stars in their skyward crossing
So glad we found you
Under the open sky you wind your way through the meadows
You are the road that will take us to in between day and dream
We hold the compass, you hold the promise of life yet unlived
We grow boulder, speeding along to discover an endless science
Road race with time
Will we feel the passion, will we feel the pain
Will we touch forever, in the other lane
Sally is smiling, time is a shower of light through her hair
Trey is flying, white knuckled hands on the steering wheel
I greet the sun, speaking it's language
Everything is still now, we have turned the key
She left him on the roof
Looking out onto the city
It's towers concrete and steel
One humid afternoon
In a month of dying crickets
And corpses of burned out cars
With the image of his profile
Still etched on teary eyes
And the chemical sunset
That stained their good bye
And later that year
When the satellites were falling
Debris from a crowded sky
She often thought of him
And the roof where he was waiting
Through days and through fevered nights
And she fears now the streets
That once led her to his house
Are erased by the colours
Frost in a churchyard, silent falls the snow
Silent on gravestones cold, on stories old
So softly spoken, whispers from below
Heard by a searching ear
A mocking voice calls, calls from Limbo's gloom
"In time the living die, the dead remain"
The snow will cover living men and dead
Tears on her pillow
Slumber is hard to resist
Sleep takes her by the hand
Opens another door
Time passes slowly
One day so much like the next
When did he say goodbye
When did the lights go out
She sees the laden sky
Wonders if he's alive
Oh since the waters rose
She has had no repose
Watches the branches
Weave in and out of the waves
She never thought she would
Live with an ocean view
Something approaching
Is it her brave sailor boy?
Heart beating faster now
No, just a drifting corpse
She sees the laden sky
Wonders if he's alive
Oh since the waters rose
She has had no repose
She is alone now
None but the vultures remain
Tuesday the last folks left
embarked from the roof of the downtown mall
Everything's sinking, or is the tide on the rise?
She has been thinking
Of rowing her boat to the western hills
Up where the land is dry
She'll find her peace up high
Ever since Edward left
Birds on a sandy bank
And the tides wash away
All the season's remains
Scents on the wind
Autumn is here
Red leaves on water
And mists rolling in
Here, at the water's edge
Where the undertow beckons
to shadowy depths
Here is where all
comes to an end
Time ticking slower
Colours that fade
Red leaves on the water
Time is ticking slower
No-one saw it coming
Like a shadow across the land
Will you stand here with me
Hold my hand and you will see
Brace for heavy landing
And the sky will come crashing down
And the stars will drown
Hold my hand and you'll see
Time here is running out
Not a wave on the sea
And the air frozen still
Sand on the wind
Stuck in mid-air
Sound is suspended
In infinite loop
Red leaves on the water
Time is ticking slower
No-one saw it coming
Like a shadow across the land
Will you stand here with me
Watch the very end with me
Brace for heavy landing
And the sky will come crashing down
And the stars fall all around
High up above us, where all the hawks
Circle the mountain, riding the wind
Floating on updrafts and searching for prey
I think I saw them today
I climbed up higher than I've ever been
Walked through the rubble, the smog and decay
Up where the sky is not auburn but blue
I'd like to go there with you
Miles stretch below us, lost in the haze
Everything distant, everything strange
Birds in formations that I've never seen
Spelling a language of dreams
Trees low and twisted, flattened by storms
Stretch across granite to reach for the edge
I feel an impulse to spring and take flight
I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds:
"Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,
I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words,
For the roads are unending, and there is no place to my
mind."
The honey-pale moon lay low on the sleepy hill,
And I fell asleep upon lonely Echtge of streams.
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my
dreams.
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles
of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake;
I know where a dim moon drifts, where the Danaan kind
Wind and unwind dancing when the light grows cool
On the island lawns, their feet where the pale foam
gleams.
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my
dreams.
I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so
blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone
I know, and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams.
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my
Ring around the rosies
A pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down
Towers tall
Stand before me
As i leave the hall
To heed this call
Hight above
Roses climb
As eveningis hours die
A distant cry
I must leave
All behind
Shed all those ties that bind
My tethered mind
Darkened light
I must take care
Never shine to bright
Stay out of sight
Once, on a windswept shore
I stood alone
Sensed that far cry
Across the reach
Tool the bell
For this sad world
Was my prison cell
A pleasant hell
End this pain
End my time
In this blind god's domain
Of brutal claim
Fragrant night
Give me shelter
From these stars too bright
I feel your kiss on my warm lips
I taste your lips on my tongue
I touch your trembling hand
I see the tear in your eye
the world lights up when you're near me
the night comes down when you're gone
a chill descends on my heart
the thrilll of loving is gone
oh the smell of your passion like roses of blood
haunts me, set me free
the shattering pain of your absence remains with me
let me be
oh the smell of your passion like roses of blood
haunts me, set me free
the shattering pain of your absence remains with me
let me be in your memory
kiss me lightly hold me tightly love me sweetly and
completely
and every word that I whispered
and every caress you gave
the radiant light of your face
the cryptic curve of your smile
oh every moment still lingers
hard as I try to move on
but truth cannot be undone
my battle will never be won
oh the sun that drowned in a shimmering, burning sea
set me free
the tingling flesh of a body that yearns, I plea
let me be
oh the smell of your passion like roses of blood
haunts me, set me free
the shattering pain of your absence remains with me
thirteen sweet days of longing
i love you more every day
thirteen long days of torment
i miss you more every day
to touch you
to hold you
to see you again
no, my tears i cannot hide
from you
dusk city
where the light is wearing thin
dull fire in an auburn sky
one fire
casts a shadow where I stand
one hour
till my world falls down
nothing stands in my way
nothing stands in my way to ruin
but the city remains
and the ghosts of the lost and lonely
silent strangers, wraiths of the neon glow
souls so dim and pale
I am drawn to where I can fade away
here at twilight's end
dusk city
where the river has no name
where hours pass like centuries
rust lingers
as it swallows up the day
one fire it will burn you down
I won't stand in your way
I won't stand in your way to ruin
let me lead you astray
follow me to the lost and lonely
silent strangers, wraiths of the neon glow
souls so dim and pale
I am drawn to where I can fade away
here at twilight's end
snow of ashes, leaves of a shredded sun
memories washed away
no regrets now, never a safe return
She sits by the window
Gazing at the frozen river
Her hands clasped tight above her heart
A tear runs down her cheek
She starts to shiver
Memories that haunt her
Summer nights that came and went
Like winds that move the willow's
Leaves
Today the last leaf fell
The tree is bent
Once there was a springtime
With flowers of the deepest blue
And he came from the south-land
Bearing gifts of love
And hope so sweet
Now summer is long gone
And gone those eyes of deepest blue
And hope lies withered on the ground
As will the last red rose
And the snow that falls tomorrow
Like a blanket pure and white
Will erase the thousand crossroads I have found
And the blindly staring scarecrow watching over his dead field
Will keep vigil over restless wolves at night
I will stay with him
In the snowswept din
And when I am cold
He will be my fire
They are calling it a white-out
All the experts on tv
"Snow is general from Waikiki to Qatar"
But they do not know what scarecrow
Whispered in my frozen ear
Here's a winter that the spring will not relieve
I will stay with him
In the snowswept din
And when I am cold
When summer nights are warm and bright
And fill the gardens with delight
When morning still is out of sight
Pale orchids glow with lunar light
And you won't make a sound
As I lead you all the way
When summer nights are warm and bright
And fill the gardens with delight
I wish you may I wish you might
Reach out and touch that hollow fright
Then I won't shed a tear
As you lead me on your way
Well, summer nights are warm and bright
And fill the gardens with delight
But cold and dark are autumn nights
And gardens pale with frosty white
And you won't turn around
I have seen
Fields of green
Dark skies glowing
Rivers flowing
And i have felt their yearning
And i have known their secret
Nature's pain
Falls like rain
Fell her beauty
Know her duty
Mirror me
Make me see
Lead my longing
To belonging
I will remember skiew i once knew
And the fullness all things anew
If silence is a word
If heaven is a voice i once heard
Tie me a ribbon of golden thread
If summer is a place
Of twilight stars and shimmering haze
Tie me a ribbon of golden thread
If sadness is a key
To lullabies the wind sang for mee
In scarlet fields where fallen angels sleep:
a ground upon which mortals dare not tread,
where moves the image of the fallen man
who holds the star within his hand
beneath the shadow of a darkened sun:
intoxicated by the wine of life
we slumber through our days of emptiness
and blindness and forgetfulness.
Within the fire of awakening:
there lies the core of my triumphant self.
a spark ignites a freedom greater than all life,
my mystery profound.
Upon the altar where the chalice stands:
where coils the serpent round its offering
of knowing and of sight, the power to transcend
Now in these fairylands gather your weary hands
Close to your breast and be at rest
Now in these silences lean to the cadences
Moulding their grace to the line of your face
Now at the end of all, loveliest friend of all
All things are your in this peace that endures
Flowers and butterflies, dew-drops in grass
Suddenly quiet as painted glass
And fishes of emerald dive for the moon
Whose silver is stained by the peacock lagoon
Since it is evening and sailing weather
Dark October drifting past us
Sheets of rain that hum and drum
On this panoramic window
While the grammophone plays "Stormy Weather" again
And the winds that howl and holler
Like a lost and lonely beast
While this empty high-rise shivers
But for floor 67 where you and I sleep
The empty cabana
The wolves by the pool-side
The hawks in the grand foyer
And raggedy children
Who play after sundown
In cars that are all stripped bare
We are stocked and under lock
an ice machine, a movie screen
And drinks to last us 'til the end
Sobriety is not a friend
This was once a proud endeavour
Builders reaching for the sky
Now there's nothing here that lingers
But the cold, hollow cries of a market that died
But we stayed on through the winter
As the empire crashed and burned
And we heard the world grow quiet
And the voice on the radio said its goodbye
A wonderful vista
An endless siesta
So high up above it all
On floor 67
We danced in our heaven
Evie with her dark refrain
contemplates the fall
pictures on a faded page
all that went before
distances and destinies
separate us all
seasons of forgetfulness
wipe away our soul
and when the morning comes
will you know what came to pass
and when the morning comes
how can you recall
shards of a broken glass
pieces scattered on the floor
sharp pain reminds you of
the sweetness of the wine
now the day is growing old
shadows all around
engine revs and taillights fade
swallowed by the night
she is left without a clue
visions fade in shades of blue
whispers of a dying day
evie turns and walks away
there are splinters scattered on the floor
and inside her soul forever more
and outside the trees are stripped and bare
It was twilight by the river
I lay lazing with my love
We were wondering and dreaming
Of the starlit worlds above
Where the crimson turns to purple
And the purple turns to blue
How we wished that we could dive into
That strange unearthly hue
Distant moonwhispers and starsongs
Dance like fireflies at night
So dark and rich in melody
So sad yet filled with light
Where the blue comes out of purple
Where the black succeeds the blue
The air vibrates a wistful song
burn all the bridges
let me feel the wind
will you save my soul tonight
follow the ashes
no-one ever will
can I hear you sing tonight
autumn is coming
evenings growing cold
and we still have far to go
far goes the memory
further than the road
and the fields that lie beyond
and every word I have said, I have sung
every fragment of meaning has gone
but I turn around to the dust left behind
where the threads of the rhyme come undone
you came a-knocking
stranger at my door
will you be my friend tonight
turned down the lights and
said my last goodbye
and I left my house behind
and though the sky it was dark it was cold
and the wind tore the rags off my back
you came along and your cloak it was shelter
The guilts, the aches, the almost starts
The songs that break a million hearts
The slowly taking you apart
Your mother's voice, your father's hands
The long abandoned teenage plans
Those country boys just left you cold
The local girls, they acted old
Your mother's lips, your father's eyes
I go walkin' under a paper moon
All the birds are singing
Singing you a pretty tune
All the constellations and all the stars above
They all start to whistling
They start singing along
The world is not a monster
And I'm not scared at all
Floatin' through your heavens
The world is in my arms
Oh rainy day
Don't follow me
Cause I'm her baby doll
She's my cup of tea
I go walkin' under a paper moon
And my eyes are made of crystals
Plastic flowers bloom
All the leaves are changing
And the skies are blue
All these seasons of distraction
Can't take the smile God's given you
The world is but a monster
And I'm not scared at all
I'm floatin' through the heavens
The world is in my arms
Oh rainy day
Don't follow me
Cause I'm her baby doll
She's my cup of tea
Love takes care of love
Silence in Thanatos' hall
whispers behind his great wall
as dreams of atlantis, a call from afar
soft words we can never recall
waking beneath this vast dome
drawn by a voice that is home
i glide like a shadow cross starlit terrain
not knowing my nature or name
take me over the waters of lethe
bring me safely to shores of remembrance
see as seeing recovers our dreaming
dream as dreams may deliver our freedom
knowing what darkness must hide
i draw you close to my side
the river is close and a boatsman is there
he speaks with a voice made of sand
leaving the silent behind
tracing the paths of my mind
the temples of hypnos recede in the haze
Faintly as the shadows
Of evening gently fall
Across the fields and meadows
A raven sounds its call
Carried by a current
Of pain and memory
Across the seas of slumber
Its calling reaches me
And i must follow
This voice of longing
Past fields of sorrow
And no tomorrow
Wrapped in shades of nightfall
The stars will light my path
Forever flying homewards
On wings of broken song
And if their light should flicker
The voice will carry on
As echoes in a quiet land
Where spirits may go strong
I lift the veil of ashes
To find a road to heaven
And in blindness find my sight
I drink the silence of light
And when this cup is empty
The sky will burts upon us
And its waters wash away
turn the brights up
it's too dark to see the curves that lie ahead
this is not a good idea
but i like it
cause the roads are clear and no-one's out tonight
we are all alone
driving through this wasteland
atmospheric fluctuations change conditions
nothing here is ever what it seems
and the weather's getting strange
oh turn it up
they're playing that song
the signal is strong
oh tune it out
the noise of the day
is fading away
voices far or near
whispers on the air
spellbound by the dashboard lights
drive on, don't slow down
we are westwards bound
nowhere else that's left to go
can you feel it
there is something here that makes the world recede
sound and vision breaking up
in a frequency drift
first the silence
then the music of the night
then you realize the beauty that the noise has blotted
driving through this wasteland
atmospheric fluctuations change conditions
and reception here is crystal clear
up the signal down the noise
oh turn it up
that music they play
is making you sway
oh keep it up
you know we could stay
Come dance with me through the mists of night
to the dark and slumbering woodlands
where roam the nocturnal spectral beasts
dranm by their Master's calling
black ivy climbs up the broken walls
where a castle once presided
the glare of the stars through velvet sky
lends life to rotting ruins
of dew and mold we shall spin a dream
that will match a demon's fancy
a whisper from ancient hollow stones
of fairy rings and phantoms
Keep close to me for the wind is still
and the Lord of Night is calling
a gift i have brought on New Moon's eve
of innocence and pale skin
Come dance with me through the mists of night
to the dark and slumbering woodlands
where roam the nocturnal spectral beasts
Stars in my pocket like grains of sand
radiant pinpoints, they sting my hand
i grab a fistful, a gift for the breeze
who will carry them far and away with case
stars in my heaven, they turn and turn
like holy fires they burn and burn
and in their pattern my love is spelt
like a sigil of grace in the womb of space
ever as time goes on and on and on
these stars will burn forever
ever as time grows heavy-headed, wan
ever
ever as life goes on and on and on
my heart is yours forever
ever as life grows tired and forlorn
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
black rain falls
heavy on the ground
dark water
shadows crowd the sky
and the raven flies
as the light slowly dies
but the lighthouse still stands
where the earth meets the sky
and as the ships pass
lit up with lanterns
they fade in the distance
like embers that die
and in their wake trails
the silence of absence that
slowly will swallow the earth
follow me
we will sink or swim
dark water
swallows everything
sink with me
to the ocean's floor
please let me
open up the door
and the raven flies
as the light slowly dies
but the lighthouse still stands
At night I heard the owls say:
"Find the truth beneath the stars
You'll have to travel back to heaths of green...
...The entrance to the oak woods will be revealed to you
A king will tell you to ride until..."
... the leaves on the trees from black colour turn to green
There to find the oak woods I seek, where the old oaks
still speak
At night I heard the old king say:
"To find your journey through the dark
You'll have to travel on a field of green"
Through time dark landscapes leave their place to
grasslands of joy
Bestowed to ancient oak woods here I ...
... stand astonished by green, light of power covers me
To understand the nature of man I have now to speak with
the trees.
In my life I always prayed the ancients acting with pure honesty
This is time to face the truth so here I go
Running through the woods I question every plant and every tree
Searching for the answer that was promised to me
Then the full moon comes out and the wind whispers in my
ear:
"Ask for White Willow near the Silver Lake"...
-The fire in my heart was burning like the flames of
ancient times
White Willow with his knowledge opened up my eyes
-The vision of the world I had before was based on
thousand lies
White Willow taught me how to live my life with truth
And there it stands the only White Willow tree
He embraced me and he told me to gaze at the stars!
The wise old tree twice spoke to me and he said:
"Bring truth to the ones that you trust
And make them believe that I still exist"
So he closed his eyes and I traveled back home
Back to my world, home I return:
And the birds cry out "The old king has died"
With tears in my eyes I follow my heritage:
Now I am to be new Elvenking!
-The fire in my heart was burning like the flames of
ancient times
White Willow with his knowledge opened up my eyes
-The vision of the world I had before was based on
thousand lies
White Willow taught me how to live my life with truth
-Green power light was flowing down my eyes like
waters from the falls
White Willow filled my heart with lore I now recall (lore I now recall!)
-The black horizons once I saw now turn to white as I pass by
And now I know why man can't bear to know the nature of the truth
and there it stands, the only white willow tree
with golden leaves and a sweet old voice
He embraced me, hard as rock
