Wintertide

I am an echo
A lightless beacon
In a cutting storm

An empty shell within a maze
Straying back and forth
A thought that never vanished
A wound that would never heal

I have been northbound months and years in hiemal
Winds that cut like spells briskly they enfold
The leafless tree
This will be the end of all

Endless nights
A barren heart
In dreadful morrow
Defoliation
And here I am
In my wintertide of faith

What have I become?
I'm a shadow!
A relentless mirage dire circles of reminiscence
So distant now what once did lie for clear at hands
A rout I can't atone

A wound that would never heal
(Never heal)
Counting hours, years in desolate
Who chose failure now will have to live with it
Dreams ignite
And die
By the fireside

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see
And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see
And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

But tonight only clamour and dismay are echoing
Over firn and ice and back they bring
All them voices muttering
Of chagrin and defeat
I was in reach of orb and crown
Could be king to the fire
I could have ruled in purple gown
Now all that's left is ire
Believe

A dismal truth
In nards that no Sun has ever seen
No further tales will ever sever
The hour's growing late for the weak and faint-at-heart
A comfort never earned, deserved
Coward

Coward

Coward

Coward

Frail
Deceit
Defeat
Deceit
Frail
Deceit
Defeat
Deceit
Frail

Defeat
Deceit
Defeat
Deceit
Frail
Defeat
Deceit
Defeat
Deceit
Frail

Defeat
Deceit
Frail
Defeat
Deceit
Frail
Defeat

Frail
Deceit
Frail
Deceit
Frail

Defeat
Deceit

In my woe
A world aglow
Let go of me

Dreams ignite
And then they die
Let go of me
Forever and a day
Right here
This will be the end of you
A feather to the four winds
A sparrow to the Sun

In my woe
A world aglow
Let go of me
Let go of me
Dreams ignite
And then they die
Let go of me
Let go of me
Let go of me

And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In a slumber, in a dream, in the glistening white I see
And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony
And in night-time longing and wintertide reveries
In the welkin, in a breeze, in crystalline euphony

Whenever I close my eyes
And stare into the Sun
Whenever in memories
Through golden fields we run
In every waking sleep
In every time of need

Whenever the soul will weep
Carry on
Whenever I close my eyes
And stare into the Sun
Whenever in memories
Through golden fields we run

In every waking sleep
In every time of need
Whenever the soul will weep
Carry on
Here in my wintertide
Here in my wintertide

Of faith
Here in my wintertide
Here in my wintertide
Of faith