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AKIN LYRICS
"Verse" (2001)
1. Dreamland
2. To One in Paradise
3. Evening Star
4. Stanza #4
5. Lenore
6. A Dream Within a Dream
7. Annabel Lee
8. Verse
9. The Valley of Unrest
1. Dreamland
By a route obscure and lonely
Haunted by ill angels only
Where an Eidolon name Night
On a black throne reigns upright
I have reached those lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime
Out of space, out of time
By the mountains, by the lakes, that thus outspread
The lone waters, lone
Lone waters, lone and dead
Lone and dead
The sad waters, sad and chilly
Murmuring ever
With the snows of the lolling lily
By the mountains near the river
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over
By the grey woods, by the lakes, the new encamp
By the dismal tarns
By the dismal tarns and pools
Most unholy
There go the friends long given
To the Earth and Heaven
By a route so obscure and lonely
Haunted by ill angels only
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over
Seas that restlessly aspire
Surging unto sides of fire, unto skies of fire
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over
2. To One in Paradise
Thou wast all that to me
For whom my soul did pine
A green island in sea
A fountain and a shrine
A dream to bright to last
But to be overcast
A voice from future cries
My spirit hovering lies
For alas! Alas! With me
The light of life is over
No more - no more - no more
Shall bloom the thunder blasted tree
For alas! Alas! With me
The light of life is over
No more - no more - no more
Shall the stricken eagle soar!
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eyes glance
And where my footstep gleams
In what ethereal dance
For alas! Alas! With me
The light of life is over
No more - no more - no more
Shall bloom the thunder blasted tree
For alas! Alas! With me
The light of life is over
No more - no more - no more
Shall the stricken eagle soar!
The light of life with me
Shall now be seen no more
Such language of the sea
To sands upon the shore
For alas! Alas! With me
The light of life is over
No more - no more - no more
Shall bloom the thunder blasted tree
For alas! Alas! With me
The light of life is over
No more - no more - no more
Shall the stricken eagle soar!
3. Evening Star
Twas noontide of summer
And it was mid-time of night
Star in their orbits shining
Pale, so pale through the light
I gazed a while
And I turn away to thee, in thy glory afar
Proud Evening Star
And more I admire thy distant fire
Than that golden lonely light
The moon was so much brighter
Than the planets you were slaves
Herself in the Heavens
And with her beam on the waves
I gazed a while
And I turn away to thee, in thy glory afar
Proud Evening Star
And more I admire thy distant fire
Than that golden lonely light
And I turn away to thee, in thy glory afar
Proud Evening Star
And more I admire thy distant fire
Than that golden lonely light
4. Stanza #4
Of what in other world shall be, and given
in beauty by our God to those alone
Who otherwise should fall from life and Heaven
Drawn by their hearts passion
Oh
5. Lenore
Broken is the golden bowl, the spirit flown forever
Let the bell toll
And Guy de Vere - hast thou no tear?
Weep now or nevermore
Let the burial rite be read
Come and let the funeral song be sung
An anthem for the queenliest dead
That ever died so young
A dirge for her the doubly dead
That ever died so young
That ever died so young
My heart is light
Tonight
No dirge will I upraise
Just let a Sabbath song go up to God
So solemnly
And waft the angel on her flight
How shall the ritual be read
And by who the requiem be sung
For when she fell in feeble health
You and your slanderous tongue
You turned an innocent to death
That ever died so young
That ever died so young
My heart is light
Tonight
No dirge will I upraise
Just let a Sabbath song go up to God
So solemnly
And waft the angel on her flight
From hell unto a high estate
From grief and groan, to a golden throne
Beside the King
The King of Heaven
My heart is light
Tonight
No dirge will I upraise
Just let a Sabbath song go up to God
So solemnly
And waft the angel, the angel, the angel
The angel on her flight
6. A Dream Within a Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
Thus much let me avow
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night or in a day
And all that we see or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream
As I stand mid the roar
On a surf tormented shore
I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
Oh God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O god! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all, is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
And all that we see or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream
As I stand mid the roar
On a surf tormented shore
I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
7. Annabel Lee
It was many years ago, by the sounding sea
There lived a maiden known as Annabel Lee
And she fell in love with the mariner
What he said lingers in her memory
She heard him say
Long ago in the kingdom by the sounding sea
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful, beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful, beautiful Annabel Lee
And the Chosen One sailed away on the sounding sea
Leaving behind the Darling Annabel Lee
Every night I sing his words before the sea
For I am what is left from Annabel
Annabel Lee
Long ago in the kingdom by the sounding sea
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful, beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful, beautiful Annabel Lee
And so at the night tide
I lie down by the sea
Where my Darling, my Darling set my soul aside
In my sepulchre there by the sea
In my tomb by the sounding sea
8. Verse
9. The Valley of Unrest
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye
Over the lilies three that wave
See them weeping above a nameless grave
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell
They had gone unto the wars
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars
Nightly, from the azure towers
To keep watch above the flowers
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lazily lay
Ah, by no wind, are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty, misty Hebrides
The violets wave from out there tops
Eternal dews come down in drops
They weep from of delicate storms
See the perennial tears descend in gems
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell
They had gone unto the wars
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars
Nightly, from the azure towers
To keep watch above the flowers
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lazily lay
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