Lyrics As The Shadows Dance - Theatre Of Tragedy

As The Shadows Dance

My eyes hold the eventide, -- albeit behind the eyes thou hast
Thro' which I 'hold naught else -- a flame enshroud’d in its blackness;
But the raven;
-- burning without the faintest breeze
Sleep my dearest ones — -- teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore
Mind not the palling velvet darkness -- thou by such angst mark’d art?!
Wherefore is here loneliness?;
Infinite hollowness
In which my thoughts echo
To the shadows i whisper —
With the shadows i waltz —
Bear me;
i am not the plague
Altho' nightclad death … mayhap?!
Dare not naysaying my grant;
-- dance no longer with the shadows
Vanish with me abaft the unlight!
— -- dance no longer with the dead in the
graveyard;
O!
the taste on thine lips;
-- dance with me the mephisto waltz
A trickling deep red love — -- wedlock 'twixt day and night —
Everlasting lightheart’dness — -- offer me relief fro the sunrays
A kiss for thee my dear
Ah!
such delight i sense: -- eternally and ne’erendingly;
Savour the bitter grapes of life!
-- a soulsister of thine i am
-- let me openly greet thy kiss;
-- the most loving and caring bites
Grant me thineself!
I bore the woe in my heart
My heart was shatter’d into its tithe, -- as i depart embrace me
Save yet are its chambers in flood.
-- and in paltry time will i re-awake —
-- i love thee