Memories are nothing like the flesh But semblences of nothingness Deeds of the past unembraceable A toil the mind so unescapable Towards the black river's shore The mist slowly dances forth Treading in untrodden ways Unseen beauty draped in dismay From the waters of despair My black thoughts suddenly turn clear Replacing the veiled moonlight A spectre of buried delight Hair black as starlight's death Drapes a spirit as pale as bloodless flesh And if i lie with you Beneath this darkened earth Will not the last be forsaken Just like the first A whisper is nothing like the wind But songs from forgotten strings An airy nothing of lingering despair Which haunts forever its captive's ears From the waters of despair Arises the past broken and austere And if i lie with you Beneath this darkened earth Will not the last be forsaken Just like the first.