~In Dark Solace ~
From the Hiding
Might you care to look
Behind this mask of laughter
To the binding of my repose
To the binding of my fortitude
To the sun - to the moon
Shall we dance above this world?
Might I reach into the sea green of your eyes
And there offer you
A Little Death
And there be reborn within you
And lay to rest - and lay to rest
This longing
I lay in the black
I pray in the light
From the hiding in the silence of midnight
I lay in the black
I pray in the light
Death surrounds this procession of life
On the steps
At the gates
Peeling back the skin
All callous
All dust
Revealing her face within
And that gaze
And those eyes
A pearl
That I will
Understand
I lay in the black
I pray in the light
From the hiding in the silence of midnight
I lay in the black
I pray in the light
Death surrounds this procession of life
I lay in the black
I pray in the light
From the hiding in the silence of midnight
I lay in the black
I pray in the light
Death surrounds this procession of life
Through Lion's Eyes
Beneath the Fountain
At the center of the sun
I look through lion's eyes
With pain and love
Bright burning Majesty
Black Mother in her form
And a Crown a Crown, a Crown of Thorns
It bears down
And i let flow my blood
To a child at the Wound
A child fierce with love
Alone in the dark
Before the Silence, the Serpent and the Sea
A rose within
Blooming in sacrifice
A death without slow sinking into night
Rebirth in midsummer
Torn from sleep
To rise and rise and rise to purity
It bears down
And i let flow my blood
To a child at the Wound
A child fierce with love
Alone in the dark
Before the Silence, the Serpent and the Sea
Dawn and Sorrow
Pearl white innocence
Your dawn amid the lost
Now hunger in the arms
Of a love that fears and rots
My grief pulls hell from heaven
At your birth into disgrace
Heralding faith and sorrow
As the tears scar your face
Now all wrapped in flesh
That's made to come undone
You'll ascend the shores
Of my great ocean
And walk down through valleys
Of wilderness and mist
I pray don't lose yourself
Take my silver kiss
There in the stillness
There in the silence
I wait for you
In the deep night sky
The infinite stars
I wait for you
The Onset of Night
From passion, the onset of night
Elegance defiles in moonlight
My stillness, my submission
Now the shadows fall like benediction
Fall
And we're alone
All alone
Our estrangement
Across mother's tears
With fiery hearts against mortal fear
In a riptide of old and new
We renounce the world and it's dusty truth
With torrid, grim pleasure
Ineffable, beyond measure
Issuing in this new age
Wars of passion become our fate
From passion, the onset of night
Elegance defiles in moonlight
My stillness, my submission
Now the shadows fall like benediction
Our estrangement
Across mother's tears
With fiery hearts against mortal fear
In a riptide of old and new
We renounce the world and it's dusty truth
With torrid, grim pleasure
Ineffable, beyond measure
Issuing in this new age
Wars of passion become our fate
Fade Away
And what is it
To be young?
Before the self is undone
A smile for the joys of another
To dance in the garden of our mother
And what is it
To die inside?
Blackened pastures and pointless life
Abandoned souls in a dreamless void
Where all purity seems destroyed
And we fade away
Fade away
Into the bitterness
A frozen breath on a night of nothingness
A broken angel
Turning away
While there in the distance
The break of a new day
This world is laced with it's miseries
Plastic smiles and glaring inhumanities
A love that is true is so very rare
Tearing through all blackness
Alive and aware
Oh what is it to be alive?
The will to live and the will to die
In so many shades on the black plane of time
We find the love and make is shine
Or we fade away
Fade away
Into the bitterness
A frozen breath on a night of nothingness
A broken angel
Turning away
While there in the distance
The break of a new day
The Weight of Fear
And there was
No trust
With that it seemed
There was no hope
Loneliness
A brittle edge
The weight of fear
On the strength of a rope
A calling
A cold breeze
A descent
To be crushed
All the words
So hollow
Pushing romance
Into lust
Black and white
Sedate in life
Suppress
Release in death
That painting
That broken heart
That great motif
Of hopelessness
Long silence
Kept the pain
And kept the love
Weary and alone
And crumbling
Into betrayal
Carving mistrust
Into a headstone
Now only tears
Now only sorrow
And a listless prayer
For strength for tomorrow
Now only tears
Now only sorrow
And a listless prayer
For strength for tomorrow
At the Foot of a Grave
Standing frail
At the edge of the woods
Life rots into the ground
The pain is not understood
When you hold the dying
When you carry the dead
Slow suffocation
Unless the skin is shed
A winter wind
Blows so cold
On a fleeting heart
Covered in snow
Covered in snow
Covered in snow
At the foot of a grave
Does this life mean anything?
Rotting flesh beneath a cross
Does this life mean anything?
At the foot of a grave
Life seems so pointless
Rotting flesh beneath a cross
Life seems so hopeless
At the foot of a grave
Does this life mean anything?
Rotting love beneath a cross
Does this life mean anything?
At the foot of a grave
Life seems so pointless
Rotting love beneath a cross
Life - life - seems so - hopeless
But as the dark defines the light
It sinks into the ground
As we wander out of night
It sinks into the ground
As the dark defines the light
It sinks into the ground
As we wander out of night
It sinks into the ground
In time the decomposing
In time becomes the nourishing
In time the decomposing
In time becomes the nourishing
In time the decomposing
In time becomes the nourishing
In time the decomposing
In time becomes the nourishing
Need
Now i am of the sun
Now i am growing strong
Gathering strength
As the days grow long
Now you are of the earth
Of the earth in spring
Waking in the light
Waking from the winter dreams
Now do not move
Until you feel
My golden hue
All radiant and real
You're so thin
Marred by emaciation
I'll force life into your skin
Now of the oldest land
Now take your throne
Before the coarse salt
Before the pine boughs
Before the broken bread
Before the dark wine
Feel the warmth and shine
Drink deep of the cup that's moulded of a breast
Feel it glowing through your green and flowing dress
Like purling water
It ripples and it runs
A wind through the spring woods
In bare leaf to the sun
To the sun
Let it deepen
From spring into the summer long
In deep leaf and full of bird song
Let us call on gods
To join us as we dine
And breathe within us
As we dance to life divine
I reach into you
As you climb up to me
And we answer your crying need
Betrayal
It's cold inside
Betrayal dims the light
Staring into your eyes
Like staring into night
Every little movement
Seems to lie
Seems to lie
It's all just a lie
And i can't help but look away
Feeling empty and torn
With a darker shade of gray
A lurid veil on everything
I'm pulled into sleep
Pulled into dream
Away from the pain
Away from the hate
Away from the memories
That are not as they seem
That are not as they seem
A lurid veil on everything
I'm pulled into sleep
Pulled into dream
Away from the pain
Away from the hate
Away from the memories
That are not as they seem
That are not as they seem
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