Theatre Of Tragedy - As The Shadows Dance - Текст песни

[Play by Raymond, Music by Theatre of Tragedy]


my eyes hold the eventide,                  

albeit behind the eyes thou hast

thro' which I 'hold naught else             

a flame enshroudéd in its blackness;

but the raven;                              

burning without the faintest breeze.

sleep my dearest ones -                     

teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore

mind not the palling velvet darkness        

thou by such angst mark'd art?!


wherefore is here loneliness?;

infinite hollowness

in which my thoughts echo,

to the shadows i whisper -

with the shadows i waltz -

bear me; i am not the plague,

altho' nightclad death ... mayhap?!


dare not naysaying my grant;                

dance no longer with the shadows,

vanish with me abaft the unlight! -         

dance no longer with the dead in the graveyard;

o! the taste on thine lips;                 

dance with me the mephisto waltz.

a trickling deep red love -                 

wedlock 'twixt day and night -

everlasting lightheartédness -              

offer me relief fro the sunrays.

a kiss for thee my dear.


ah! such delight i sense:                   

eternally and ne'erendingly;

savour the bitter grapes of life!           

a soulsister of thine i am.


let me openly greet thy kiss;

the most loving and caring bites.


grant me thineself!,

i bore the woe in my heart,

my heart was shatter'd into its tithe,      

as i depart embrace me,

save yet are its chambers in flood.         

and in paltry time will i re-awake -

i love thee.