
Date of issue: 15.06.2017
Record label: Season of Mist
Song language: English
Charles Francis Coghlan |
A blackness comes forth- thick clouds from the North |
A serene cemetery atmosphere |
Transforms into one of melancholy and drear |
The wretched remaining seek shelter ahead |
Huddled together, shedding tears for the dead |
And ‘midst the silence before that storm |
The beginning of this peculiar tale is born |
Ravished by infernal winds, hail, and rain |
A storm surge generated by a deadly hurricane |
Caskets plucked like feathers and swept into the sea |
Into a maritime eternity |
Charles Francis Coghlan, born in Paris, 1842 |
A remarkable actor awaiting his breakthrough |
Charles Francis Coghlan moved from Ireland to the United States of America |
His charisma would put a spell on you |
Talented, handsome, and eccentric |
A rising star… reaching far |
Rough waves carrying caskets towards another destiny |
And most of them sink into the cold blackness of the sea |
Yet one coffin keeps floating steadily |
Charles Francis Coghlan- rising star, reaching far |
Charles Francis Coghlan- rising star, reaching far |
Charles Francis Coghlan- rising star, reaching far |
Charles Francis Coghlan- rising star, reaching far… |
In death |
Breath-taking was his play, expressing joy, fear, sorrow, and rage |
He collapsed to the floor |
And when his applause died down, he truly died on stage |
Charles was no more |
Day and night dancing and swaying along with the tide |
Crushing rogue waves pounding the box of death until it’s out of Sight |
Until there’s no more light |
Corroded by maritime salts |
Submerged into the ocean’s cold |
Sinking away from the circling sharks |
Pulled down into the dark |
Charles Francis Coffin- rising star, reaching far |
Charles Francis Coffin- rising star, reaching far (in death) |
Charles Francis Coghlan- rising star, reaching far |
Charles Francis Coghlan- rising star, reaching far |
In death |
(Taken by the wave from its Texan grave |
Coghlan’s coffin drifted like a ghost along the American coast |
Until 7 years later, after the storm had abated |
The casket was found washed ashore on Canadian ground |
We are artists for life until the last drop has been shed |
And true artists will always perform until their very last breath |
Even within the cold and timeless theatres of death) |
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