1. THE NIGHT WINDS OF AVILA

(Instrumental)


2. INTO WOODED HOLLOWS

“Through night and wind
Sough withered leaves
The old willows so grey”

From the glare of the desolate
To the solace of ancient stone
Down by midwinter morass
To the caress of solitary oak

Escaping to another realm

Moss and lichen drape the fallen boughs
Through rain of brumal smoke
Warm light beckons the path beyond
Old dreams are reignited

The doors to an old life creep open
A long dark spell only now beginning to lift

Together, we walk on, alone

The lucent eye, torn through turbid sky
Peers through the sea of cloud, and smoky lights
An amber mist, limns the night
Over time's faded tapestry

Toward land's end
Through the thicket of lambent sun
I hear the waves ever restless
As another day fades

A gift of beauty, carried with the wind
Clouds roaming seaward
Are eternally lost, in deep cerulean silence

Far from home
A slow death of her reverie,
The shackles of a pallid warmth
Still smoldering, inhumed inside

As I sleep, under the idle haze
Ashen dreams in tender gloom


3. ETERNAL UNREST

Relentless waves crash against
Drown the voice, unbroken within

An empty light
Through bygone days

Still living in a fog
By the feathered firs of vanishing years
I longed to return but there was no way back
All frost and leaves, now enshroud the track

Triumph and blight
To ride the waves of ambition and despair
Eyes awaken to sidereal dusk
A gloom-ridden sylph, hung high through breathless night

You have been here before
And here you shall ever fall

The rose paled mist
Wading through the waters
A slow death through time

On this edge of darkness
A stillness fell
Frozen in a gloom of lurid beauty

The absence of you
Sallow moon by my side
This constant neurosis
Ever to silence the incessant mind

A wraithlike vision of home
You are already forgotten

All that was known fades
Nowhere left to escape

A cursed gift
Drawing the rains, comfort of an illation in delirium
Reasoning in despair
A lost past gathering dust

Our own hell, we create
None can help through this fog
With your skull in your hand
Awaiting eternal rest


4. MOON ISABELLINE

(Instrumental)


5. THE SILENT PASSING

Whispering thoughts from deep dark wells...

Sleepwalking through the storm
Vacant eyed, dwelling inside
A mind in atrophy
Longing for the quiet

Behind glass, locked within
A romance of the malady

Late shadows bleed across the floor
And jonquil paints upon her walls
Till an eerie nostalgic, dwindling of the day
As night drapes her room intrinsic grey

Her embrace, the scent of the past
Ingrained to maudlin dreams you cannot wake

For the sun of yesterday has not left
But now shines behind me, on a sea of unrest
A frozen home beneath the waves
Never to be seen, under the sun again

(What you cannot take with you
Through the passage of time)

Hollow memories of what once inspired the heart
After a long sleep you wake up old
And there's no one left to hear you

A cold empty room, where she once breathed life

Now a silent passing, until we’re nothing


6. EMBERED WATERS

A lost voice fading into the void


7. LUCILLE'S GATE

Virulent thoughts, falling dreamscapes
The next wave of shadows are coming

Enter oblivion

Before the ancient gates
And beneath the cold earth
Falling through chaos
Toward a violent end
Beauty, and brutality entwined

Cries tear through empty night
Amongst the dead and forgotten
Winds moan through haunted sleep
The dream of unwaking

No one cares for your kind
Now you’re just one less burden

What poison sings in the depths of my breast
A faint heart, inspiring hatred
The annihilation of being

Disgust and inner turmoil, ever growing

Falling into the familiar cloud
Lost in a spiral of smoke and confusion
Dragged back into the murk
The fog of despair, in catatonic blight

Tired of fruitless hope
There’s no peace here


8. EMPYREAL NIGHTSKY

What has this darkness brought you?
Down where the black willows, are windswept
Lost moments in time, left to a quiet death
A soul so poorly, her love hopeless to remedy

Night sways into restless dreams
Imprisoned in her world of gentle pain
She softly sings through my empty cage
Returning footsteps, just a deception of the rain...