Time is my disguise An amulet I'd rather Bleach it from our minds Than cherish like no other Leave the storm outside The ancient ice is melting Crackles on the wire But still the air grows chilling Perish with the thought And yet the storm is rising Never could have thought How pleasant a surprise And how dare you look so well When I cast so many curses And how dare you look so proud In a trail of petty corpses Given time enough to tell How the winter froze upon us In a travesty of turning points A fragile trust was shattered Ritual into wrong And heresy to harbour Search for so long gone And carry this no further Leaving still anon Behind the restless ardour Fear of words undone And safest left to wither