1. ONE WINTERS NIGHT

I think with teary eyes
Of you my love on this dark night
I recall my time with you
In lonely rooms of saddest blue
Love and loss entwine
To never fall into the light
And my feelings true
Shall never rest until I die with you

And hand in hand one life
Moves against the tides of time and fate
And hand in hand one life
Turns its back on those who cannot see
And from this dying world
An echo carried softly on the breeze
Sounds of the Reaper's grace
A silent tear falls to a grim defeat

I watch the candle's light
Dance in time across your face
Your soft pale skin on mine
Lost in your gaze I slip away
Embrace the night my love
For it may be our last
But let not this moment fade and our memory
Shall never know the grave
On a cold winter's night

Shameless to the eyes that peer in
Behind the curtains our silhouettes are grey
And the cattails sway in gentle mist
Beside the mirror's gleam
From a soul that shines like stars
In the heavens from afar
Every word rings true
I'll never rest until I die with you
On a cold winter's night


2. REMORSE

He stands in the chill of night
With snow swirling down
Memories lurking in his eyes
Blood is on his hands
She still lives inside of him
She still holds his eyes in thrall
She still softly sings to him
And she still owns his soul

And he will live forever more
The walls of his world crashing down
Alone in the dark
The walls of his world crashing down
Shadows in his mind
The walls of his world crashing down
Sanity has gone

Tears of blood roll down his cheeks
As she cried his name
Trapped he stood and watched her fall
Screaming in the rain
He still hears her crying there
Sees her pictures on the wall
He still sees her lying there
And he still hears her call

Walls of white and silken sheets
Line his padded cell
Far beyond the metal door
Eternity his hall
Well, they did not understand
When he cried out her name
No, they did not understand
Death was the only way


3. AS HEAVEN SANG

As I slept
You whispered in my dreams
You said
That fate could never end our love
That there was no power stronger
On Heaven, Earth, or Hell

You gave to me your last soft breath
Now I pray for death
The rest of time without your touch
How I long for death

Then they came
To take you back to heaven's edge
Now soft your wings hang at your side
And the branches close around you
To hold you for all time

I held your heart
And you fell from heaven's grace
Held your gaze
But your eyes see nothing now
Felt your breath
But your voice is silent now
Death comes swift
But love never fades away


4. EVENSONG

Forever, let the nights burn long for our loss
As all words shall die in good time
Fleeting shades of pain catch my eye

And the mist of days long gone by
Captures tears and smiles as we die
And I hear your laughter from far away
In the fondest place in my mind

Together, let the nights burn long with our doubt
When we spoke of days still to come
They were bright as mid-summers sun

And my life is grey without you
And the nights won't shine without you
And my heart grows cold without you
Yet the seasons change without you


5. ANGELS AND FAITH

Looking down at my life
I find the cold stare of spite
In a copse the angel sighs
I long to feel her at my side
Hope is dread, it waits for me
And through its cloak, I cannot see
In her arms, I wish to rest
But she's slave to cold, sweet death

And she knows what's in my heart
And she sees the falling snow
On the darkest night of life
And she sees the fires burn
Underneath the falling snow
On this darkest night of life

I trace her steps and yet I find
A search in vain to end this life
I smell the rose within her hand
Existing in the hour's sand
Hope is dread, it waits for me
And from its grasp I long to be
She shuts her eyes, the darkness falls
And life is lost to midnight's call


6. FUNERAL NIGHT

With night fading fast
Let us walk to keep the time away
My heart is so cold
I know what is right
What to do when all has passed away
Will you still stay strong?
Steadfast when will has gone?

As here we stand hand in hand
In this funeral night
Can't I see that we both will fall
Can't you see my dry tears
On this skin so cold
Even now the Reaper comes
Though you are here I am afraid
I am afraid, my love

with night fading fast
Warmth is but a memory of youth
As our day grows old
I can't bear to part
With so many things I hold so dear
But all things must fall
How well I know the grave

We must stand strong
And face our fears until the end
'Til the day when truth is found,
When at last we can rest


7. AS WE DESCEND

On the shore lies a lost and broken dream
Silver shines with its echoed memories
In the night one can almost hear the past
If they listen with their hearts atop the sand


Why does no one realize
A hidden truth is nothing but a lie
And my weak heart fades each time
I hear good-bye pass from your lips

Hands achieve what the eyes have longed to grasp
A talisman filled with promises and lies
In the night she can almost hear him cry
The strangest chill enwraps him as he carries on


8. NEVERE

Hear Autumn's voice descend like rain through the night
Hands pull a book of memories from a dusty chest
Within the yellowed pages lies all I have ever wished for
I seek a name and one is found inscribed by long dead hands


I found your heart within these words
Each crystal tear reflects my Nevere

No body moves beside my own though I feel you near
And from the halls I can hear your footsteps falling softly
Do your eyes see the ice that hangs below my window sill?
I smell your hair like the softest breeze from somber skies

Dark is the path over which limbs extend to grasp a lost love
Between them time intends to stand until the day does come
Through the midnight's hour I hear a piano
play a soft and sorrowful song
The past has passed, the death has died and I am left with nothing


9. REMAINS

Sweeping winds of greyest passion
Find the four who wander fated
Within halls their velvet laughter
Is heard unknown from places shaded
Eyes are lined with black of midnight
Lips all touched in scarlet bliss
Tattered velvet, lace and chains
What dead have known such grace as this


Here let us lay for this age
Has sung its last days
Under the full moons' watch
Black is the coffin in which our dreams lie
Silver remains of the time of our glory
Stand where our temple fell
Black are the mirrors to which our fears fly

Pale hands flicker beneath the white lights
In rhythm with the living darkness
Others follow void of meaning
To stand in shadows as if thoughtless
Boots are laced through shining eyelets
Cobwebs line the greying hall
The dance goes on but pales without you
As winter turns to see the fall

Through warmest nights of starlit skies
My eyes must find another life
Where once we hoped to ever be
The only ones who understood
We now must face the coldest truth
That precious little matters now
For what we felt forever breathes
Within the silver by the sea


10. SILVER CROSSES

To the new day a sea whispers
The time of your life
As a silence falls onto our world
Mourn all those who spoke


Let us fade for the end knows an angel
Whose scars shan't stain
On the age-blackened walls hangs a portrait
Of our last words; goodbye my friend

Silver crosses hang about our hearts
In love of this death
The velvet ending falls onto our world
Gentle and soft

And when one weeps
For broken trust
The cold wet steel
Of strength shall rust