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SERAPHIQUE LYRICS
"Nehalennia" (1998 Demo)
1. Wilderness in White
2. Morphine Man
3. A River
1. Wilderness in White
Nehalennia - Wilderness in white
Once upon the dusk of dreaming.
Once upon the evening stillness, which no winter ever touches, I saw you drown.
Under your breath, into your arms, in your eyes I drown so deep... these are winter's favourite days.
Take on this heart of mine, where the snow still is waiting for you, to hallucinate.
I saw you again last night, shining in a starlit heaven like a bright, but falling star.
Allow me to catch you.
My senses are like snow; weak and soft, but blinding.
I am the snow on your hair and skin.
I am the snow that blinds you, the light that guides you to darkness.
When the day draws to a close, a frail and fragile sun throws a faint light through threatening clouds in motion.
Lux perpetua luceat eis.
Heaven must have sent you here to always live on in the depth of my heart, to shine where the sun can not reach.
We melt with the snow on our skin, we drift as a stream, forever searching... but remembered in our hearts is... the snow.
2. Morphine Man
Nehalennia - Morphine Man
For may years standing, my assembly with you, is reliable, a permanent comfort, bliss and safe-conduct.
So oddly near, that your presence is hardly invisible to me.
And that I know your voice like the beatings of my own heart.
I often thought that I could call you by your name, but you changed, you touched me in another way.
You left me. I left you... aghasted.
And I am craving for solitude again, and again, and...
My shell cracks and I leak, morphine enters, consciousness expands.
In deft taints, enchantment, spellbound, miserysystem.
Morphine made a man and the dope made him a king, but he is but a wanderer in the opium fields.
Never I saw, but as sure as you see me, I know your place is captured by an other.
And I touched god in an indecent way, my will is gone, thy kingdom cum.
3. A River
Nehalennia - A river
Treading water slightly, although I know it is senseless, senseless indeed.
And although I'm changing, I still am bathing in glass-like joy.
Joy that's so fragile, how fragile we are. I drop a hopeless smile...
Treading water slightly, while I'm aware that the rivers never return.
They struggle to the sea, collide, entwine and are carried away.
River, drown me deeply in you, still.
I wander on a foreign stream and the grass on the banks ceases to grow.
Cry me a river to drown my joy, swim my sacrificial ocean.
Waves swell and as they grow tall the water rages with intense anger and cuts through the earth like glass.
When everything's calmed the glass is stained with dried out flakes of soil.
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