Lyrics The Lion's Promise - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows

The Lion's Promise

After the boy had taken a walk
with his dear — deceased — Grandmother,
his feet were somehow led to a small, ancient church,
wich was giving quite an imposing grandeur.
Partially sunken in the morass if the marshland
all foggy and chronically overcast…-
the ancient house was waiting.
The haunted house lies waiting.
Clockwise the stone flight is spiralling upwards,
but soon the passage becomes too small to get on…-
even though the boy’s now crawling.
Anxiously he attempts to restrain,
but his way back semms to be obstructed:
Gelatinous hearts are linded-up along the walls,
each of them inseminated — or defiled — by a black
tadpole.
A stone lion promises to be the boy’s rescue…-
but only, if he eventually… stops running away… from
him…