As the time has come for me to leave this world How I longed to probe into the guarded mystery Had to realise the best kept secret was my life itself Beware, you sages, far too wise: The last joke's on you! I've seen the light in the dawning day I've seen love - in a burning haze Don't you tell me I squandered this precious life For much too long I listened to your insidious voice Deafened by fear, blinded by hate: You missed the point I might die but I die laughing straight into your face I've tasted blood on your lips Divine magenta - heavenly No wise books can replace a single word you've said No dreams were sweeter than those I dreamed in your arms No drug did take me higher than the scent of you No fire be as fervent as your desire Where ever you are, where ever you roam For you I sing the sweetest song Salve Regina Quae pervia caeli porta manes et stella maris Vita dulcedo et spes nostra, Salve Ave Regina Caelorum Ave Domina Daemonum Salve Radix ex qua mundo lux est orta, Decora You call my name You walk amongst the late The seventh veil left at rainbow's end We're passing time like ferries crossing a stream Into the underworld: Cerridwen's domain Come aside and cry for this is the spring of tears Weep for the child inside gone from you Died away: No place in the upper world But who will nourish our dreams When laughter expires? To some a nightmare, to some a dream The day will end for some, as the night begins for one Come aside the fires of my tribe, find shelter here The wise woman takes the bone and points at me: Who am I to be? Not a single word trips from my lips so I start to dance Whilst the dark crone holds my soul, I lay down my mask See my heart is in your hands See my wings are broken The fire starts to burn my flesh to the bone Trial by flames I stand all alone: My guide's disappeared Naked and blind the new born god is dressed in innocence Shall I dare or stay unconscious? Who'll be telling me wrong from right? As shadows fall like leaves in September wind We're trying to keep us warm with the ashes of our memories But when nightmares call, we don't persist at all Retrospective dreams collide stranded on that wasteland's shore As shadows fall And will my name be called? Up on the mountain bare In black cloth dressed and desperate fear As shadows fall Silence of remembrance fades I dreamed we once held hands but I awake As shadows fall In nomine Magnae Deae Nostrae Introibo ad altarem Dominae Inferae Quae regit terram I've tasted blood without tongue My skin shed at your feet Am I to sacrifice? I asked the all-knowing crone Until you understand you'll die! the crone replied This might be heaven, might be hell - no difference I see Salvation can't be found in here... I sadly sighed Where is the sun? Who'll light my day? Where are the stars? Who'll guide my way? I try to hide but inexorably a voice like thunder coming up And as the midnight sun drowns the world in velvet light I call your name through the ashes of time Of all transgressions I can't take no more Deliverance, your love, is all I implore As flowers burn I hear the wolves return... At this desolate place Lost in time and lost in space Remembrance of a golden age In these days of yore: A magic spell Was it your name I called? I'll try again... And like a dream Your loving face I touch your golden skin just for a while Entwined we fly through the blackest skies You smile, I take your hand - back home again! Osculetur me, osculo oris sui Quia meliora sunt ubera tua vino Fragrantia unguentus optimis Oleum effusum nomen tuum Ideo adolescentulae dilerexunt te Trahe me post te As flowers burn I hear the wolves return...