Emilie Autumn - Rapunzel Sonnets - Текст песни

Sonnet I
Dreaming from my tower 
In the air 
Higher than the trees 
Surrounding close 
Wondering if men 
Would find me fair
Footsteps down below 
Break my repose 
The mist about my window 
Hinders me 
From viewing 
Who would enter in my court 
But so few visitors I chance to see 
Intent I am 
On making my report 
And tuning my sweet song 
Towards the earth
I'll change my fate
Which left me here since birth

Sonnet  II
Six notes 
Only had I sounded 
When 
The footsteps came nearer my prison wall 
Trembled I
Yet sounded them again 
And from what seemed the pit of earth 
Heard call 
A voice 
Quite different 
From those I had heard 
Though I could count that number on one hand 
My lips 
Too dry to speak a single word
I wondered 
Why I had not better planned 
And tried in vain to step back from the sill 
For something held my hair 
And kept me still

Sonnet III
I tried to scream 
But sound I could not make 
My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech 
I thought of how my tresses 
I might break
But spied the scissors 
Just beyond my reach 
Frantically 
I fumbled through my skirts 
Searching for my dagger in the fold 
The same I used 
For tearing linen shirts 
And as I knew 
Not what of me had hold
To sacrifice my braids 
I raised my knife 
Too late! 
I now must kill to save my life 

Sonnet  IV
My point directed at the stranger's chin,
No time was left for severing his rope 
But shall I murder him 
Or let him in? 
I was too stunned at what I saw 
To hope for some salvation
I knew I was lost 
Whichever was my choice 
It mattered not 
The mist had cleared
My innocence the cost 
And for one endless moment 
I was wrought 
Of human flesh 
And human cares and fears 
The fantasy of fables 
Read for years

Sonnet  V
A face it was
Yea, it had lips and eyes
But unlike that which greets me in the glass 
In its twin orbs 
I saw no less surprise 
And so we stood
Two statues made of brass 
I gazing in his eyes
And he in mine 
As though we might have read each other's thoughts 
He smiled slowly 
As one 
Drunk with wine 
When suddenly the forest rang with shots 
The hunters oft' before had come too near
And so I bid adieu 
To all my fear

Sonnet  VI
Hardly knowing half of what I did 
But well aware the half 
I knew was mad 
I grasped his arms as virtue may forbid 
And pulled the creature with what strength I had 
Into the chamber
To the floor we fell
Then scrambled I 
To my poniard retrieve 
And asked him now
At death's third door 
To tell 
Why cam'st he hence
And bade him not deceive 
For if he should be false
Despite his beauty
Though I be fooled
My dagger knew its duty

Sonnet  VII
His lips then moved 
But not a sound was heard 
I saw them 
As two petals from a rose 
When finally 
He was fit to say a word
I was content examining his nose 
He made some mention 
Of a songbird's tune 
I was not listening 
But o'erlooked his brow 
He claimed 
He would have climbed up to the moon 
I wished to give him peace
But knew not how 
He had not thought his rope a maiden's hair 
Upon my life
I found the creature fair! 

Sonnet  VIII
The deed explained
He begged of me my name 
"Rapunzel" 
I replied
"A man thou art?" 
"I am" 
The creature laughed
"The very same 
How long hast thou been kept from life 
Apart?" 
I told him how 
For one and twenty years 
My home had been the walls 
He saw around me 
How no amount of pleading
Nor no tears 
Have gained a visitor 
Until he found me 
But when I think upon it 
I recall
For staring
He did not hear me at all

Sonnet  IX
It seemed to me 
We may as well not speak 
His eyes had gone 
As cloudy as the day 
He asked if he might 
Come again that week 
And I knew 
He must soon be gone away 
He took my hands 
And pressed them in his own 
As if by doing so 
He should stay longer 
He told me of the world 
I might have known 
Vowing to return 
And slay my wronger 
Then promising no harm
His head he bent 
And kissed my lips
Then out the sill he went

Sonnet  X
Lowering himself 
As he had come
Through the mist 
My creature disappeared 
Riding back 
To all that he was from 
And all that I could never be 
I feared 
And yet 
What raven locks fell 'round his face 
What gentle eyes 
As gray as seagulls wings 
A voice so soft 
My words cannot replace 
The memory 
Of a thousand lovely things 
And so I'll dream again 
Of arms more sweet 
The dagger 
I had dropped 
Lies at my feet