- All Lovers Lost
I am my only thief and jailor keep
Bedeviled and priest beseech
The pander come to me
But mad love is religion enough
For my heart
And to those I gave life
Confessions of a gift worth end
I am the spirit's grin kissed
- Annwyn, Beneath the Waves
Here, thoughts cling airborne
To a sea of voice so glorious; mesmerizing
This is my body; this is my inner mind
What lies beneath my eyes
Discarded years of elemental faith
Beckoned to a watery embrace
With love upon his face
- Boudiccea
It's the impossibility of Womanhood that vexes me.
The child bride symbol
The ability to read eyes and minds -
Curves more fluid than desert waves,
The tiny bones of the wrist,
The organic movement to paint the lips.
But the heart
A woman's heart
- Branwen Slayne
O my deare brother I am damnifyed at Caer Siddi
For myn housbonde hath this twelfmonth treated me with crueltie
Albe to please thee I didst cheerfullie accept his proffred hand
I was ne'er wary he was ruler of y Uffern land
For whan his gastfull subjekts they didst first espy hir freondlesse Queene
Eftsoone they wept for I to them was noughte but a living thinge
hence with despight his consorted kingdomes stonie hart eshewde
And I am thrall'd to sufferance in poverte and servitude
- Failure to Thrive
The season's over
The season's done
Too slow to notice
The fire's gone
So thin on the ground
With a chemical heart
And a cheap excuse
I've played my part
- Frater Ave Atque Vale
Row us out to Desenzano, to your Sirmione row
So they rowed, and there we landed O Venusta Sirmio
There to me through all the groves of olive in the summer glow
There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow
Came that Ave atque Vale of the poet's hopeless woe
Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago
Frater Ave atque Vale as we wandered to and fro
Gazing at the Lydian laughter of the garda Lake below
- Heal
Salute the essense
Perfection's humor
Conversed so often: mute
Oh my dear
I'm always near
Oh my dear
Heal
We can't conceive
- In Dreams Of Mine
Soft in essence purity, came to me in blissful dreams,
And bade me follow sleepily to sights we few have never seen,
I dropped down to join her view, I fit quite well her feline saunter,
Rings and echos past we two, a sing-song call did beckon her,
And with her heart she looked at me,
saw me as a fellow being,
It seems she was about to speak,
- Kodama
Come all you mortals and gather round
To hear the tale of the Spiral Down
The ancient heart within us all
Forced to splinter into nothing at all
Come the Tall Tale Industry
There was Spirit and the Machine
The mechanical philistine
- Mercyground
Air-built madness: unfamiliar charm
Hides in the softest eyes
And ponderous smiles manifest denial
But heavy heartless conscious of our load
Hurled by dreams into a separate world
We dig the thoughtless earth
With fingers lighter than the breath
- Old Souls
Our love, is an old love baby
is older than all of our years
I had seen in strangers eyes
familiar tears
We're old souls, in a new life baby
they gave us a new lifeto live and learn
some time to touch old friends and still return
- Prodigal
Mother and Father, Sister and friend
It's not that I embrace the end
It's simply that I feel too deeply
Towards what I see around me
But this is not escape
This is my way
Oh Father, Mother I find
The people here are so unkind
- Relic Song
The walls of my myth are closing in
Past a twenty year rebellion
And the song comes back again
I am a man and my blood is still running strong
We didn't realize we'd all live so long
When I revive my once youth nation
A Relic Song for the new generation
- Scars Flown Proud
We are the inheritors; the evidence of heaven
Descendants of a legacy gone but not forgotten
We are the inheritors of the grand persuasion
Descendants of its masquerade; numb but not defeated
Welcome to the silent war, to the world we never hoped to gain
The great disguise wandering between two realms
One dead the other rarely dwells beyond our eyes
- Shattered In Aspect
It's time to let go
Time to spend some time alone
Farbeit to explain what has been done
And what is illusion
We have outlived ourselves
By many a ruined year
The future ripped from a tattered page
- She Waits by the Well
I've been carrying this
Like my heart's in a fist
And its grip is tightening
The lantern whispers then flickers out
I wait in the wind
And the storm is rising
Heart that pounds the dreamer’s night,
- Sovereign
Between the world and the one inside
The truth you speak and the one you hide
Some stolen moments and a struggle within
Behind the pain and the sacrifice
Behind the mask and the grey disguise
How many angels dancing on the head of a pin?
- The Burning Season
I'm having a weak moment, a moment that may not end
Lonely in my own skin
And everything is changing, everything seems changed
As if quietly replaced by something souless
Burn It Down
What happened to the spirit with all its endless strength
- The Red Crown
What can be offered to the Lost?
A tiny piece of Divinity?
But what - just to watch Them bring it to its knees?
To lose it without ever knowing what power it may possess?
Yes, kill it quickly -
Let it fall to the moment of Crisis
When what one has not chosen but accepts as their existance
- The Silver Circle
Come to life my deviltry Possess this poor company
Our secret be benefit Their unhappy lack of it
Awaken my trusting friend My undisturbed reflection
So fluid your beauty All gears and teeth
Come Alive
Come to life my second skin To protect the madness locked within
- The Trauma Coil
Another night down on the catherine wheel
Drawn into a corner
A symphony of resounding shrieks in my head
I court a sure, sudden death
But give no quarter
A paper soul tears the heart from the mind
Searing is the morning, a tenement of lights
Lost inside the attic
- Vervain
A thousand dreamers crept as one
Journey'd by the colder sun
Knocked at the chamber's gate
Yet this sleeper does not wake
In the oracle overhung
With careless whispers, ivystung
Their tiny fingers cling to warmth
- When We Go Dark
What have you done?
What have you become?
Trapped by all you once held in contempt.
Defined by order
It's not who you are
Extinguish
To see things clear you have to close your eyes
- Whispered In Your Ear
You've come this far
It's just a little further from where you are
Another hour, another mile, one more year
It might be easier to let yourself disappear.
Always on the outside
And all eyes turn away
All eyes turn away.
It's fragile work to keep your dream
- Willow's Song
Heigh ho! Who is there?
No one but me, my dear.
Please come say, How do?
The things I'll give to you.
By stroke as gentle as a feather
I'll catch a rainbow from the sky
And tie the ends together.