Lyrics Lachrymae Rerum - Iapetus

Lachrymae Rerum

A precious gift, this mortal heart;
To feel a tear from deep within
To taste a kiss for which must part;
To know the emptiness of sin
Taste once more, pale skin
Memorize every inch
A distant place
Ahead of time
In which all things are revealed
Bound within a pageless spine;
The words erased, the book is sealed
Taste once more, a final breath
Memorize her kiss
Know that this is the last time
Know there is no forever
Take all the time you can
For this has already passed
I remember every moment, as if etched into the world;
Precious gifts too often ignored
I still feel every sensation of flesh, every gentle breath, every quivering lip
bathed in sunset
I still feel the warm sun, dying in the sky
Cradled by the shrouding darkness of the night
I still feel the rays of morning light
Caressing the flesh of all life
A pale wind deceives the innocent and their enlivened dream
A true loves kiss binds the time to freeze in memory
A wretched scowl adorns the faces of unfortunate fates
From lover’s arms torn the dream, weaved and misbelieved
From divinity is bred the sickly, severed mortal fiend
In their image wrought the fatal, final misguided dream
An earthly poison for which there exists no single cure
Now burning in the flames of our destined failure
A mother made divine, a father waiting patiently;
A child’s name decided, hope will be their empathy
Inside the womb we find an unborn fetus, in now a tomb
A prayer for mercy echoes inside an empty vacant room
From desperation is bred a hopeless mortal fiend
And has once again wrought the fatal, final misguided dream
The poison spreads, for there exists no single, silent cure
Destined to drown in the oceans of our failure
In moments of uncertainty
When all seems in vain
Cherish every single misguided dream
The thoughts of feeble minds
The love of a fragile heart
Come so close
But go too far
Time will pass on
With or without us
Cherish all there is
Cherish all we are