
Date of issue: 23.03.2009
Record label: Союз Мьюзик
Song language: English
Pure as Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm) |
Under the cold weight of snow, the earth will finally hibernate. |
It is the miracle of winter. |
Flakes fall as if they were sent to pause time |
before the seasons begin again. |
Some are clumsy, some are graceful, |
but each knows its landing place on the earth |
The only movement here is that of a young woman searching through the braided |
pine branches for an opening. |
Her white dress is camouflaged against the snow. |
Lost in this dream chamber, she moves through the white powder, |
running her hands through it to awaken her memory |
Parting the branches, she follows an open path cleared before her, |
swerving its way to a stone bridge adorned with icicles. |
Someone is waiting |
for her there, a gray figure, a stranger, watching her through the shower of |
white between them. |
They are uncertain of why they have come but they both long |
to be here. |
Although she cannot recognize his face, she knows him somehow. |
As they stand together, a single ray of light grows from behind, |
wrapping them in its warmth until they dissipate into it. |
When she awakes, |
a cloud of winter air still floats above her. |
It was just a dream again |
On this morning, a man awakes from the same dream, one that reoccurred so often |
that he felt incomplete without it at times. |
It haunted him. |
When his eyes |
closed, her face still appeared before him, but not one that he could recognize |
His oldest memory was of being an infant sitting before his family, |
unable to speak or walk on his own. |
He cried for days and nights, |
his small fists clenched, until one day he couldn’t remember why he was so sad |
anymore. |
Along with the other children, he learned to laugh and run again. |
This became his new life, and everything before then seemed no longer his |
The man watches swelling clouds from his window and cannot help but anticipate |
the arrival of something today. |
Bodies bustle their way past him as he sits |
outdoors, but they are like shadows murmuring to one another. |
They float by |
unnoticed as his eyes only fall upon a young woman, dressed in white, |
who stands behind the crowd. |
He feels comforted, almost relieved by the sight |
of her, and longs to be near her |
Their eyes lock, a strange longing glance that could not be severed by anything |
at that moment. |
Her eyes are like two deep wells of stories, perhaps one he may |
have heard before. |
They appear dewy, prepared to overflow |
In the distance, church bells ring. |
The humming noise and motion of the world |
seep back in to disturb their peace. |
If she is a mirage, she will disappear |
soon, he thinks. |
But she remains there, motionless. |
This time is not a dream |
With a final glance at him, the woman slowly vanishes into the sea of bodies. |
A steady downpour of snow ripples in the wind until he cannot see anything but |
the movement of white. |
Chaotic, like a surge of emotion, and yet pure, white, |
and delicate, the snowstorm remains an enigma to him. |
As he tastes the |
snowfall, he sees a single ray of light piercing through a cloud, |
and he cannot help but smile |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn | 2009 |
Ashes in the Snow | 2009 |
Burial at Sea | 2009 |
The Battle to Heaven | 2009 |
Breathe | 2019 |
Black Rain | 2007 |