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I haven’t felt so lonesome, babe
Since last you held me in your arms
The moon shone cold and sinister
And the stars were bitter charms
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
Through drifting smoke I first saw you, babe
And time froze like the blood in my veins
Heaven revealed in the gleam of your eyes
To my desert heart you brought life with your gentle rain
Our days and nights were a carnival, babe
The air burned with limitless pleasure
My world was contained in the world of your smile
And each bead of your sweat I claimed as priceless treasure
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
What caused you to turn your back on me babe?
What caused the world of your smile to fade?
My heart knew its truth before you said a word
I knew that all our promises were unmade
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
I saw my death framed in your eyes, babe
And time froze like the blood in my veins
Heaven lay abandoned in the frost of your eyes
My heart returned to desert without the touch of your gentle rain
My world became a wilderness, babe
As I sifted the sands of my brutal despair
I wondered at the depths my sorrow could plunge
Holding the mirror’s gaze with a vacant stare
The years that we had shared between us, babe
Were fading memories, sterile and cold
All the secrets that were left to tell
Remain promises untold
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
That night when we fell away
That night when we fell
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And I will know your sacred ocean, the depthless sleep you dream
And I will know the mystery of your breathing
And I will be there through your nights when you dream
And I will be your shelter when the storms rage
And I will gather all your sorrow when the stars shatter in a frozen scream
Yes, I will gather your blue aching sadness like diamonds from a sunwashed stream.
And I will pray in the shadows you cast when you dream
And I will anoint your sacred flesh with my tears
And I will banish the ghosts from the world where you dream
And I will wrestle your demons on a timeless shore
And I will gather all your sorrow when the stars shatter in a frozen scream
Yes, I will gather your blue aching sadness like diamonds from a sunwashed stream.
And I will be the colours in the magical weave that you dream
And I will be the trembling witness washed in your eyes
And I will love you for a long time because you’re holy
And I will love you for a long time because you’re holy
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I wrote a song of sorrow
Of smokestack tears to banish the sun
I wrote a song for the one I loved
She the world, my dream entire
She now faded, she now gone
She my vision of the kingdom to come
She my vision of the kingdom to come.
I wrote a song of sorrow
Of a darkness cold beyond the sun
I wrote a song to cloak her absence
She the world, my dream entire
She now faded, she now gone
She my vision of the kingdom to come
She my vision of the kingdom to come.
When this heart’s wreckage is laid to rest
And the cold earth closes on these brittle bones
I will enter her pearlbright kingdom
And she my vision will again be known.
I wrote a song of sorrow
Of memories born beneath a dying sun
I wrote a song for one now lost
She the world, my dream entire
She now faded, she now gone
She my vision of the kingdom to come
She my vision of the kingdom to come.
When this heart’s wreckage is laid to rest
And the cold earth closes on these brittle bones
I will enter her pearlbright kingdom
And she my vision will again be known
Yes, I will enter her pearlbright kingdom
And she my vision will again be known.
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When my eyes are stripped naked in startling revelation
And the sun’s a festering wound above a dying lung-scorched plain
When the raw bleeding horror of the world is revealed
And the masks of delusion can no longer be sustained
When we conjure the poisons of our own destruction
And the spells we cast are born of alchemies profane
When the vision of beauty is lost to curdling tides of corruption
And the promise of hope gibbers only in the minds of the insane
She comes to me in my hour of weakness
When my strength it fails, when resistance is vain
She comes to me and is a world of silence
She comes to me and is a world of rain
To my shallow cupped hands by grace she is delivered
She is a moment’s redemption midst this world of pain.
When the veils of the dreaming are plundered and torn
And the memory of love is all that remains
When the poet’s moon is a blood-streaked tear
And the stars in their paling are the ghosts of exhausted flames
When desire is known only by its absence
And the mirror turns away in quiet disdain
When the heart is sorrow, an ashen wilderness
And the soul is crippled and broken and maimed
She comes to me in my hour of weakness
When my strength it fails, when resistance is vain
She comes to me and is a world of silence
She comes to me and is a world of rain
To my shallow cupped hands by grace she is delivered
She is a moment’s redemption midst this world of pain.
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Until The End Of Days
03:36
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I will love you until the end of days
Until this world trembles upon the brink of extinction
Until all shadows quiver, eventually to fade
Cast by the dying sun’s exhausted rays.
For you are the rose and you are the fire
The dream of all wonder, my eternal desire
For you are the vision and you are the light
The mystery of all beauty, my darkest velvet night.
And now I conjure you on a bonewhite shore
I have given you my everything but long to give you more
But as the ghost of you shimmers into final absence
I am left to commune with heartstorms and violence.
For you are the grief and you are the sadness
The well of all suffering, my unutterable madness
For you are the sterile wasteland and you are the desolation
The heart’s truth of all sorrow, my tears of resignation.
I will love you until the end of days
Until this world trembles upon the brink of extinction
Until all stars quiver, eventually to fade
And an exhausted universe collapses into decay.
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The ballads are soaked in whisky
And our tears are of London Gin
I never thought that to fall in love
Could be such a wretched sin.
We drink to bury our sorrows
And watch the hours slip away
They become all our lost tomorrows
But we drink, it’s our only way.
The only way to contend with the sadness
That seems to drip from the very walls
The only way to deal with the madness
That consumes us, one and all.
We listen to the old songs
Lose ourselves to their sad refrain
The poet’s voice is cracked and raw
It is the mirror to our dream’s demise
The echo of our sordid pain.
We drink to still the wretched heart
Where the dark breath of the furies holds sway
Pounding their fists in their senseless art
But we drink, it’s our only way.
The only way to contend with the melancholy rage
When thought’s dark legions descend
The only way to contend with this dying age
Until we reach oblivion’s end.
We listen to the old songs
Lose ourselves in our own sad refrain
The poet’s voice is cracked and raw
It is the mirror to our dream’s demise
The echo of our sordid pain.
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How long must I wait until the ocean?
How long must I wait until the rain?
How long must I wait upon the silence?
To sanctify my heart once again
To sanctify my heart once again.
How long must I wait until the sorrows pass?
How long must I wait until the rain?
How long must I wait to trace the curve of your smile?
To sanctify my heart once again
To sanctify my heart once again.
How long until the vision forms
How long until the gentle rain
How long must I wait until the world is reborn
To sanctify my heart once again
How long must I wait until the shadows lift?
How long must I wait until the rain?
How long must I wait to swim your sacred depths?
To sanctify my heart once again
To sanctify my heart once again.
How long must I wait until the healing hour?
How long must I wait until the rain?
How long must I wait to drink your secret tears?
To sanctify my heart once again
To sanctify my heart once again.
How long until the falling star
How long until the gentle rain
How long must I wait until the rising moon
To sanctify my heart once again
How long must I wait to hear your song of songs?
How long must I wait until the rain?
How long must I wait to enter the realm of your senses
To sanctify my heart once again
To sanctify my heart once again.
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Promised Land
02:52
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We fade into the grey undone
Where the silver brows of the angels tremble as they sleep
We shall drift into the grace of unbecoming
Dreaming soft green fathoms oceans deep
To sow the seeds of our immortality
A shining harvest of rapture to reap
We shall taste the fruit of glory’s kingdom
And ecstatic illumination shall be the tears that we weep
O come to me my sweetest love
And take my unworthy hand
O come to me my sweetest love
We shall take flight together through the Promised Land
Lost to the delicate embrace of sweetest smothering
We shall sing songs of silence to banish all pain
Folded within the arms of tender forgiveness
Our arid souls shall be reborn in the crystal rain
Such dreaming shall find realization
Midst the swirling shades of deepest night
As we are welcomed into sublimity
As we are swallowed by oblivion’s majestic light
So let us spread our tarnished wings
And into that Promised Land take flight
O come to me my sweetest love
And take my unworthy hand
O come to me my sweetest love
We shall vanish together through the Promised Land
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You’re the ghost in my world all-consuming
Where mirrors hold memories in petrified silence
Where the trees scratch sinister through winter darkness
Etching my dreams with blood storms and violence
Where time is the fragile witness
To the death of hours, the falling of the days
Where you drift at the limits of vision
A Terrible Beauty held within a moon-washed face
Where the stars burn cold their judgement
In my scarred yet lucid imagination
Where the moon crumbles to jaundiced dust
In my fists of darkness and degradation
I would drown to be born again
In the soft green depths of your ocean
And I would happily surrender
To your deathworld mystery
And I sing you into existence eternal
For the ghost of you is the heart of me
The ghost of you is the heart of me
Yes, I sing you into existence eternal
For the ghost of you is the heart of me
Where your voice is tidal memory
Swelling shimmering bittersweet blue
Drowning my heart-dictated senses
With soul-burning visions of you
You’re the ghost in my world of heart-secret tears
Of fallen stars, shattered prayers and sorrow
Whispering the perpetual death of dreams
Revealing agonies we must face tomorrow
My eyes still seek the distance of horizons
Where the grace of your shadow may one day fall
And these words I write are clouds across my heart
My end and my beginning – my all
I would drown to be born again
In the soft green depths of your ocean
And I would happily surrender
To your deathworld mystery
And I sing you into existence eternal
For the ghost of you is the heart of me
The ghost of you is the heart of me
Yes, I sing you into existence eternal
For the ghost of you is the heart of me
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In Loneliness And Wine
03:30
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Cool white of infinite perception is my truth in madness
A shimmering reflection that swamps the night
O cascade of tears, yet buries at least for the hour
My darkest brooding of fears
My companion in the hours that weep with sorrow
My grace at eventide and my pain tomorrow
Dragged now with razors through hours dark and deep
When the normal, the breeding, when such bastards sleep
And I in my scaffold of self-loathing and fears
End berating the mirror into naked, bloody tears
That are nothing but symbol, my final disgrace
As the sun rises again to a world I cannot face
My companion in the hours that weep with sorrow
My grace at eventide and my pain tomorrow
My companion in the hours that weep with sorrow
My grace at eventide and my pain tomorrow
For me heart, my soul, my vision seem sordid, yet divine
Perhaps it is the lonliness, perhaps it is the wine
My companion in the hours that weep with sorrow
My grace at eventide and my pain tomorrow
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Emotions are exhausted
The dream itself runs dry
The world has turned to darker days
Our truth revealed beneath impassive skies.
How could such devotion endure?
Ill-founded to struggle on shifting sands
No matter the depth of our desires and longing
The prayers we shaped in gentlest hands.
Let the world turn on without me
Let the hours in silence bleed away
Let me gradually fade from your conscious mind
In the enduring depth of your dreams to lay.
Our love was born in shadow and sorrow
Our hearts to the realm of suffering
We must now retreat into our secret selves
There are no more songs of joy to sing.
Let the world turn on without me
Let the hours in silence bleed away
Let me gradually fade from your conscious mind
In the enduring depth of your dreams to lay.
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The Truth of All Love
04:14
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I can still taste the wine on your tongue
The sweat of sweetest death on your skin
I can still see the dream in your eyes
(Infinite wonder, infinite surprise)
Tell me, how could such a love be a sin?
How could such a love be a sin?
I can still trace the curve of your smile
For which the Gods I would eternally defy
I can still see the dream in your eyes
(Limitless horizons, limitless skies)
Tell me, how could such a love be a lie?
How could such a love be a lie?
I can still feel the tender mercy of your breath
Shaping starlight to the mystery of song
I can still see the dream in your eyes
(Limitless horizons, limitless skies)
Tell me, how could such a love be so wrong?
How could such a love be so wrong?
I can still touch the sorrow of your tears
Their silver glistening heartbitter pain
I can still see the dream in your eyes
(Infinite wonder, infinite surprise)
Tell me, how could such a love cause so much pain?
How could such a love cause so much pain?
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