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AUTUMN TEARS LYRICS
"Love Poems for Dying Children - Act III : Winter and the Broken Angel" (2000)
1. The Grand Celebration
2. The Mirrorstone
3. The Never
4. The Broken Doll
5. Winter´s Warning: I. Prologue
6. Winter´s Warning: II. Spring Requiem
7. Winter´s Warning: III. Summer Requiem
8. Winter´s Warning: IV. Autumn Requiem
9. Winter´s Warning: V. Winter Requiem
10. Winter´s Warning: VI. Epilogue
11. The Passion And The Fury
12. The Widowtree
13. The Bird Without Wings
14. The Eyes Of Deception
1. The Grand Celebration
See the bird and its opulent beauty
It asks not for love, it asks not for pity
Yet mine eyes do betray me, for the feathers hath fallen
The bird is no longer; a child in its place
Her face... her face... A muse of stone and mirrors,
concealed beneath the veil of a smile
Within her hand I can see the shimmer,
the steel that screams to taste my flesh...
To unbind and unshackle me, once and forever
I am nothing again... I unravel, I dissolve...
I remember...
The image is fading, these eyes cannot see
We pray for their mercy, we pray to be free
The sky is my painting, my tears are the rain
I open these wings... and feel no more pain
2. The Mirrorstone
Chastise this... my sadness and agony
Extinguish this, my once bitter flame of valiance
To covet the wishes buried within their lustful innocence
For these trinkets of living flesh... use not unwisely
Scarlet oceans of bittersweet madness
Painting us visions of their mockery
Seek no comfort within silent ones, the beautiful ones
For they are far less merciful than I...
3. The Never
Do tell me why my dreams
Speak to me always of never?
For I am the never, the ever dreaming senses
Within the windows of mine eyes, the beauty is ever shame
This searing imagery roots within my consciousness
Imagery that which I wish to know of, and wish not to know of
They are one in the same
The silence of screaming, deep within the void of my never
Take away the emptiness
The dance echoes its imagery to me
Again and again... and again
Our dance... our very last dance
Taunting me, taunting delicately around the empty carousel
Of what I now wish to be and what remains of my dreams
Why must I dream of the flourishing fountain
Ever flowing with the blood of al whom hath cried out my name?
Forget not my name
The dance echoes its imagery to me
Again and again... and again
Our dance... our very last dance
Taunting me, taunting delicately around the empty carousel
Of what I now wish to be and what remains of my dreams
A glimpse of a beautiful painting slips away
Leaving in its place a canvas of endless black...
Yet the illusion remains
4. The Broken Doll
Beware, dearest daughter,
beware of the silent ones
the beautiful ones
for now,they are all but whispers
tempered within the edifice of time
Beware,dearest daughter
for they are far less merciful than I
Even in death, my spirit cries out to her
weeping for the youth that was raped
the innocence that was defiled
her pale, child-like, porcelain face
Now shattered into a thousand tiny fragments of lifeless beauty
each reflecting its own horror
I laugh at the mockery and irony of fate
for she spares no ones as she dances hand in hand with time
she taunts us with her invisible smile
a smile which to me reflects only a masque
a masque which my face no longer wear
Beware, dearest daughter, beware of the silent ones
beware, dearest daughter
for they are far less merciful than I
5. Winter´s Warning: I. Prologue
My time hath come again, my sisters
I allow thee to rest unrecognized
Painlessly thou shalt sleep
As death creeps into pale flesh of fertile golden bliss
We shall not speak of thy awakening
As long as I rule... my bitterness shall reign
And my frost shall reflect the night
Falling upon Summer's withering remains
6. Winter´s Warning: II. Spring Requiem
Spring...
My youngest sister as well as the oldest
Thou - but a mere child thyself,
art the mother of each beginning...
So naive and innocent! Why art thee so persistent?
To birth anew what I hath avenged,
what hath deserved to die?
7. Winter´s Warning: III. Summer Requiem
Oh, Summer... blissful one
Our disparate souls are fated to eternal separation
Thou could turn the earth into dust if it were thy desire
But thou art too careless and too oblivious
to see our mother's ruins... upon its surface
8. Winter´s Warning: IV. Autumn Requiem
9. Winter´s Warning: V. Winter Requiem
Alas, Autumn... do not fear, my dearest
We are both misunderstood
Thou art the one who welcomes me
As I sweep through thy portals I shall now relieve thee
From thy colorful melancholy and sorrowful fatigue
From every word of betrayal
hangs upon an icicle of misery
a collection of tears of my past, now frozen
I mourn Man's false dreams
And the ones who think me a fool... shall lay before me,
bleeding red crystals upon my frigid smile...
into my wet, white grave
So I can touch their suffering yet feel no remorse
They pray to Summer... but they sacrifice unto me...
10. Winter´s Warning: VI. Epilogue
11. The Passion And The Fury
Love me not... love me not
Take no pity upon me... take no comfort in my kiss
Ask not why my tears flow without passion
Ask me not.. love me not
Confusion carved upon their fragile faces
Masks of innocence hide their fury
I give them sleep and peace
Sleep, my children... sleep and forgive not
Ask not, take not, love not, want not
Tears no longer soften me... purity deceived by rage
Look to them now and know
They wish for none so passionate
The desire for their eyes to forever blacken
Streaming rivers of searing fury
of which my name shall no longer be writ...
Dawn awakens and hear me sing
12. The Widowtree
do you remember?
fingers of sunlight,
as they were caressing face?
do you remember?
the leaves dancing in the sky.
then falling softly to their painless death
the picture is there, as clear as the glass within their eyes
as innocent as the song of mourning birds.
birds who cry if only to live for but just one more day.
to be like us their angelic faces bereave
and they are always asking me
why must we forgive...
if only to forgive, if never to forget...
read these words that are engraved upon my face
and then look away... look away...look away
13. The Bird Without Wings
Gather me and sing so softly
Die with me now and always
I unravel
I dissolve
I unravel
I dissolve
I unravel, I dissolve, I remember...
14. The Eyes Of Deception
LIAR!
DECEIVER!
BETRAYER!
HYPOCRITE!
Scream out my name
as I ravish the life from all that you love
before your very eyes
Through me, they shall reap their vengeance
and regain their destiny
Fate now sides with us...
Watch helplessly as we deliver the gift of death
But not for you, my dear foolish sister
No! But not for you!
Your fate shall be far less merciful...
Taste our kiss for now and ever
And live amongst what you have created
and what you have become...
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