She floats where silence used to sleep A shadow stitched from pain too deep Her name a curse the wind won't say Yet death itself keeps her at bay A floating spirit, wailing wild No mother, lover, kin, nor child Just shrieking, keening, combing long Her streaming hair through death's own song Her eyes are red from endless tears From centuries of birthing fears She weeps, she waits, she knows the dead Their whispered names still haunt her head A moving grain, a walking storm All my dreams lay broken Where all is sadness and hope is lost Dark chants make silence bleed right through It chants so deep, the ground will shake And from their graves, the dead awake Dark clouds trail behind her form But I saw myself, all alone Not even shadows stayed beside me My heart was empty, and my soul pure stoned And then I saw, clear, cold, and cruel Where no Sun shines, no harvest yields Every hope I fed with fire It floats above the mourning fields Where no Sun shines no desire No priest can banish Blades cannot harm Lit by sorrow, rage, and wrath It floats above the morning yealds Then rise and sets the world on fire She bends what death had closed before Opens paths and close the doors Her streaming hands to death's own song What once was happiness But now is gone Their whispered names still haunts her head Dark clouds trail behind her form A moving grain, a walking soul Lightning candles in her path But this is not a tale of rest Nor kindly passing to the West The Red Banshee, unlike the lore Can bring back death, and so much more Her screaming rends the veil in two Dark cloud trails behind their form A moving grave, a walking storm