Shadow-bride Lyrics - Singles - Rama's Whisper

There was a man who dwelt alone, 

As day and night went past 

He sat as still as carven stone, 

And yet no shadow cast. 

The white owls perched upon his head 

Beneath the winter moon; 

They wiped their beaks and thought him dead 

Under the stars in June. 

Their came a lady clad in grey 

In the twilight shinning: 

One moment she would stand and stay, 

Her hair with flowers entwining. 

He woke, as had he sprung from stone, 

And broke the spell that bound him; 

He clasped her fast, both flesh and bone, 

And wrapped her shadow round him. 

There never more she walks her ways 

By sun or moon or star; 

She dwells below where neither days 

Nor any nights there are. 

But once a year when caverns yawn 

And hidden things awake, 

They dance together then till dawn 

And a single shadow make.