Shallow Rivers
The Leaden Ghost
1. Of Silent Winds That Whistle Death
Will you follow the curse of a baneful sorrow?
Beyond milestones of death. To insatiable oblivion
To the end of it all. Will you follow?
Spell a word that shall befall
With a gleaming light of the leaden dawn
In a sudden rush her heart still beats
A lamented jewel buried deep in tragedies
With all hatred it could keep,
Bleeding so painfully
In vain she blamed the Lord and cried
Her prayers despised by tacit saints
Fed up with a tongue of blasphemy,
Her weakening sighs will end in agony
Oh, hapless Fate of all mankind
When darkness calls a day
In its ending serenade,
Again she awakes
To take a sorrowful fate of the mourner
In every dawn I see
A pale figure appear,
To disastrous chaos dragging me down
Towards the mist I step
In dissonant sanity
Blazing damnation of a sufferer,
In vague blackness haunting me,
Enraging howling whistlers of death
Stealing terror upon me,
The shining vision solidified
Razored reality
Enraged howling whistlers of death
Silent winds whistle
My own disease
I've seen a vision flickering
And the beauty of its stillness
From a lifelike breath I could hear a sigh
Then she dropped a tear
Like she was alive
Towards the curse
Now
The gates of everlasting sleep stood wide
Beneath the gale and waterline
She made a step to the frozen land,
Where silent winds whistle death
Light upon us, haze around us
Light upon us descends
And you're so fragile melting in my arms,
A vision ethereal
The morning fades in tranquil harmonies
A dancing shade slips through my hands
To the untrodden path
Where still immortals stand
A serene shelter for their eternal rest
A hardly beating heart I hear
In a whistler's melody
Oh, my mind can yield
A wanderer of the lonely sea
To serenade my woes away
A grey fog breaks the dawn
In stirring madness of the blusterous sea
By storming winds
Her sleep disturbed. Disrupted
She's still horrified
And tightened to the deck
Oh, how I wish she was alive
Once dashed ashore a fair maid
Far off and desolate
Her drifting corpse of chaos made
To return to life no more
In deep poisonous salted waters
Into the void
And then I saw utter destruction of a visible form
Scorched, wrecked and torn
That fog dispelled upon the shore
Again your body laid frozen
No more my breath could thaw your soul
Each dawn I open my eyes and sigh for you
2. Light upon Us, Haze Around Us
Light upon us descends
And you're .so fragile melting in my arms,
A vision ethereal
The morning fades in tranquil harmonies
A dancing shade slips through my hands
To the untrodden path
Where still immortals stand
A serene shelter for their eternal rest
A hardly beating heart I hear
In a whistler's melody
Oh, my mind can yield
A wanderer of the lonely sea
To serenade my woes away
A grey fog breaks the dawn
In stirring madness of the blusterous sea
By storming winds
Her sleep disturbed. Disrupted
She's still horrified
And tightened to the deck
Oh, how I wish she was alive
Once dashed ashore a fair maid
Far off and desolate
Her drifting corpse of chaos made
To return to life no more
In deep poisonous salted waters
Into the void,
And then I saw litter destruction of a visible
Form
Scorched, wrecked and torn
That fog dispelled upon the shore
Again your body laid frozen
No more my. breath could thaw your soul
Each dawn I open my eyes and sigh for you
3. Scorched, Wrecked, Torn, Then Crumbled to the Sea
Scorched, wrecked, torn
Yet struggling through the sea
Towards agonizing waves the vessel drifts
Through the howling winds from the Northeast
Like a wounded beast
Ferociously
Oh, Father, what may it be?
Shuddered. I cry out loud
Can you hear me?
While I stay bound to the mast
Oh, Father
Watching collision of Moon and Sun
I hear the bell-like thunder roar
A scornful laughter of our Lord
Here shall we all die at once?
In this chaos where even Gods keep silence
No more they hear us
Scorched, wrecked, torn
And salty water filling my throat
Mud in my eyes, so close darkness I see
Scorched, wrecked, torn then crumbled to the sea
Oh, Father, what may it be?
We are cold
As I draw in a leaden aura,
They gather around me,
Hollow shades of absurd
A forlorn cry
Of their suffering nature
Echoes the final scene of my stand
Lead upon me
The ghost will take me
Soon I'll be rewarded
We'll soon be a shade of the one
We are cold leaden aura
4. We Are Cold
As I draw in a leaden aura,
They gather around me,
Hollow shades of absurd,
A forlorn cry
Of their suffering nature
Echoes the final scene of my stand
Lead upon me
The ghost will take me
Soon I'll be rewarded
We'll soon be a shade of the one
We are cold leaden aura
5. Snow
Revive
Come alive
Soon your soul will breathe again
Into me
She is a painter of my burden
Nothing more to bear
With every touch
She takes away
A shadow from my day
As cold as her kiss
In a wilderness
Do I exist? Wandering
White silver in the air
Faintly it descends
So let it snow
Until she fills my chest with lead of spells
By her words my mind possessed
With eyes staring at her freezing mouth
My body is of fragile ice
Mesmerized no frost I felt
Disappearing
Frozen there she laid
With crystal eyes wide open
She comes alive
Under the gentle snow
The leaden ghost
She's watching the sea with steady eyes of a roamer
Abandoned forevermore a spirit of the shore
Enchanting restless waters, whose depths enshrined her life
Cold and petrified
She's searching the truth she'll never know
In a cadence of forgetfulness
A damnatory weakness of her failure
Behind the veil of haze a wraith I see
Shining grey
A formless figure of endless suffering
A transparent shell of human being
Then spilled a tear
The girl cried loud
The name of the beloved one,
Who waited on the shore that day
With all hopes wrecked and swept away
And then she sighed again,
Revealed to me a secret
Of my end
You blind my eyes. I can't see
Your leaden light unto me
This unbearable numb pain in my ears
A haunting voice I cannot resist
It terrors my mind
I just cannot reach your words behind
Unconscious
I step into water
While soft winds die down,
The cold water sun I see
Are you a ghost of the leaden light shining?
Your words are full of sense, but I can't hear you
While soft winds die down…
6. The Leaden Ghost
She's watching the sea with steady eyes of a
Roamer
Abandoned forevermore a spirit of the shore
Enchanting restless waters, whose depths
Enshrined her life
Cold and petrified
She's searching the truth she'll never know,
In a cadence of forgetfulness
A damnatory weakness of her failure
Behind the veil of haze a wraith I see
Shining grey
A formless figure of endless suffering
A transparent shell of human being
Then spilled a tear
The girl cried loud
The name of the beloved one,
Who waited on the shore that day
With all hopes wrecked and swept away
And then she sighed again,
Revealed to me a secret
Of my end
You blind my eyes. I can't see
Your leaden light unto me
This unbearable numb pain in my ears
A haunting voice I cannot resist
It terrors my mind
I just cannot reach your words behind
Unconscious
I step into water
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