1. ELYRIA

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2. SPARKS

Where splendor casts umbrageous twin
And love sparks radiance
To guide the heart from within
All in search for you
Eve of brilliance
Till the morning proves indifference
For the sparks die
Leaving shadows in my vision
How dutifully the dull sunlight chastises
Adopted wings that dare arise with promise
Incandescent I represent
Pandora's uninformed enlightenment
And fears that creep about my flame
Evanescence until the dawn calls them
Home again bearing thoughts of you
And I'm helpless to see
Unbecoming of me
Blindly mythicizing
Etiolation emphasized by merrythoughts
Once broken by moonlight
Oh brighter to have never loved
Than gather ghosts of the blinding
Relentless sun idealized in you
And I can't bear to see
Unbecoming of me
Love is not dead


3. ALL LOVERS LOST

I am my only thief and jailor keep
Bedeviled and priest beseech
The pander come to me
But mad love is religion enough
For my heart
And to those I gave life
Confessions of a gift worth end
I am the spirit's grin kissed
With the taste of silent tears
And the glutton for emptiness
Can feast on my heart
Such is the reign of banishment

In my heart
And all lovers lost
Find them in the heart of darkness
In the minds where my dear alvina weeps
Once lifted their voice in praise
Argus-eyed my useful ghost
Did lose it's mind
Still they curse my former name
But mad love is religion enough
For my heart


4. INTERLUDE: ANNABELL

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5. VERVAIN

A thousand dreamers crept as one
Journey'd by the colder sun
Knocked at the chamber's gate
Yet this sleeper does not wake
In the oracle overhung
With careless whispers, ivystung
Their tiny fingers cling to warmth
A home for the love weary heart
Onward sacrarium, time sojourns
Polanquin leads this path adorned
While reverent creatures soft prepare
The slumberous beauty carried there


6. THE UNQUIET GRAVE

The wind doth howl today m'love
And a winter's worth of rain
I never had but one true love
In cold grave she was lain
Oh I adored my sweetest love
As any young man may
So I'll sit and weep upon her grave
For twelve-month and a day
One true love is eternity for two
Three four nevermore
Will I see my love true
The twelve-month and a day foregone
The dead began to speak

"Oh who sits weeping on my grave
And will not let me sleep?"

"'Tis I, m'love, upon thy grave
Who will not let you sleep
For I crave one kiss of your lips
And that is all I seek"

"You crave one kiss of my cold lips
But I am one year gone
If you have one kiss of my lips
Your time will not be long
Let me remind thee, dearest one
A patient heart to keep
For we professed eternal love
That lives though I may sleep"

There down in yonder garden grove
Love, where we once did walk
The finest flower that ever was seen
Has withered to a stalk
The stalk is withered dry, my love
Though our hearts shan't decay
So make yourself content, my love
Till god calls you away"


7. IAGO'S DEMISE

Ophelia
Cordelia
Desdemona
And Kate
My sweetness and Beatrice
So precious your pain I sing for your lovers
Your heavenly fathers to be Your possible futures
Your obvious endings defeat me

Alma
Badoura
Dorothea
And Jade
Belphoebe is just like me
Such perfect disdain I sing for the daughters
The heavenly mothers to be
Insanity's wanderings
Ritual fatherings greet me

So carry me (there's no one to)
Comfort me (there's no one to)
Care for me (there's no one to)
Capture me Ophelia (I dream of the daughters to be) Cordelia (the ritual fatherings)
Desdemona (the heavenly mothers to be)
And Kate (insanity's wanderings)
Alma (the sons and the lovers to be)

Badoura (the infidel creatures like me)
Dorothea (the virginal martyrs to be)
And Jade (the doting fathers)
I sing for the passive
The heavenly loyals to be
The unrewarded loves
Obvious endings defeat me
While I'm asleep I can open my eyes

What my lucid heart speaks
Conscious caution denies
Here betwixt and between
Lies Iago's demise
As I sing for my creatures
Their infidel features Ophelia (I dream of the fathers to be)
Cordelia (the heavenly loyals like me)
Desdemona (insanity's wanderings)
And Kate (suicide's followers)
My sweetness (the virginal martyrs to be)
And Beatrice (the doting lovers for she) So precious (the unrewarded like me)
Your pain (the infidel creatures)
Alma (the worshipful followers)
Badoura (the doting mothers to be) Dorothea (the constant martyrs)
And Jade (the unaging fathers)
Belphoebe (the unloving characters)
Is just like me (insanity's wanderings)
Such perfect (the heavenly daughters to be)
Disdain (the obvious endings


8. INTERLUDE: MALEFICIO

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9. WHEN TO HER LUTE CORINNA SINGS

When to her lute Corinna sings
Her voice revives the leaden strings
And doth on highest note appeare
As any challeng'd echo cleare
But when she doth of mourning speake
Ev'n with her sighs the strings do breake
And as her lute doth live or die
Led by her passion so must I
For when of pleasure she doth sing
My thoughts enjoy a sudden spring
But if she doth of sorrow speake
Ev'n from my hart the strings do breake


10. CAESURA

In kairos hour I bequeath
Confusion of my sole belief
Consider: am I god in mortal shell
Yet shine no brighter than myself
Invaded by life's patriarch
Who conquered me through hatred's art
With fists of all unspoken sin
Agrip'd my angered heart within
And blood unknowing humble flows
Deity's miscarried ghost
For here my innate children prey
Un-nursed and unhealed wounds betray
A swollen rage: my numen's breath
Of fire yet demotic sense
Weakens me
Mysterious misanthropy
Rejects its own humanity
I give thee name
Yet keep the blame
That is my one possession
Wherein lies the lesson


11. THE TRAUMA COIL

Another night down on the Catherine wheel
Drawn into a corner
A symphony of resounding shrieks in my head
I court a sure, sudden death
But give no quarter
A paper soul tears the heart from the mind
Searing is the morning, a tenement of lights
Lost inside the attic
On the floor again with a head full of rain
Wander with the shadows of shelter and smiles
Bleeding in a stairwell
Fever-staggered steps and a mouth so dry
Three liquid words collapse
Blind and chasing sirens
Five years of night time and a heart made of tin
Allow your sympathies the length of a table
I recognize no brother
Lash out at their smiles and walk in through their eyes
As my knowledge, does the knowing
Split my being from past days
In decision, in departing
In the severance of old ways
With precision, in my silence
I perceive the bitter still
Imposition, these young calling
Withered kisses, or the kill?
Together we stand
We stand so still
Indifference, hollow laughter
Bathes the walls of this lost home
So futile, all attempts
Affectations, long to roam
Ever spinning, vile actress
Answered blindly to the call
The price, child yet again we sit
And watch our private more fall
I am not well
No, not well at all


12. MERCYGROUND

Air-built madness: unfamiliar charm
Hides in the softest eyes
And ponderous smiles manifest denial
But heavy heartless
Conscious of our load
Hurled by dreams into a separate world
We dig the thoughtless earth
With fingers lighter than the breath
Of lifeless minds awaiting death
On this mercyground
What may transpire in this stagnant posture
Tradition multiplies
Where repetition reigns and the air smells of age
And prayers of sightless
Blind us to the earth
Disenchantment sings in voices fortified
Our sleep is justified
Prone and weary from descent
Our eyes reflect empyrean
On this mercyground
Safe inured we lay to rest
Pinioned by our helplessness
On this mercyground
Empty smiles drag us down
Until we softly kiss the ground
And all movement is lost
Silently we all sink down
Embraced within this mercyground
And all movement is lost


13. HEAL

Salute the essence
Perfection's humor
Conversed so often: mute
Oh my dear
I'm always near
Oh my dear
Heal
We can't conceive
A child's peace
Belief our direction
Salute the essence:
The essence of two performers
A pleasure ridden torture


14. EPILOGUE: TWILIGHT

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