Proem Lyrics - Antichrisis

And as I walked through the garden of love. 

I passed the gates of paradise and the gates 

of perdition. Maybe the saddest experience 

of all is that even the most wonderful and 

precious moments don't last forever and 

appear like a dream that faded much too 

soon when looking back. 

But both darkness and light are given to us 

to make us prospect and grow: like every living 

being needs the interplay of daylight's sweet 

kiss and night's gentle embrace. And as 

darkness falls while I'm drifting away on 

the river of sadness, the remembrance of love's 

golden sunlight is my only supply of logs for 

the cold and lonely winter of the soul. 

This album is a tribute to a love that was so 

beautiful as long as it lasted and so bitter 

when it ended: hence both love's heavenly 

bliss as well as bereavement's abysmal 

despair are to be found amongst these 10 

songs; songs that are like sears to me now... 

But still the dream remains, and yet my love 

has not withered nor have my songs faded 

away: Though Moonshadow died in the devastation 

of declining Planet Kyrah. Sid survived - 

but for how much longer? 

Goodnight - and may the Goddess bless you all! 

SID 

"When I'm dead, my Dearest, 

sing no sad songs for me, 

plant thou no roses at my head, 

nor shady cypress tree: 

Be the green grass above me 

with showers and dewdrops wet; 

and if thou wilt, remember, 

and if thou wilt, forget." 

[Christina Rosetti (1830-1894)]