As The Shadows Dance Lyrics - A Rose For The Dead - Theatre Of Tragedy

R: My eyes hold the eventide, 

Thro' which I 'hold naught else 

But the raven; 

Sleep my dearest ones - 

Mind not the palling velvet darkness 

LK: Albeit behind the eyes thou hast 

A flame enshroudd in its blackness; 

Burning without the faintest breeze. 

Teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore 

Thou by such angst mark'd art?! 

R: Wherefore is here loneliness?; 

Infinite hollowness 

In which my thoughts echo, 

To the shadows I whisper - 

With the shadows I waltz - 

Bear me; I am not the plague, 

Altho' nightclad death ... mayhap?! 

Dare not naysaying my grant; 

Vanish with me abaft the unlight! - 

O! the taste on thine lips; 

A trickling deep red love - 

Everlasting lightheartdness - 

A kiss for thee my dear. 

LK: Dance no longer with the shadows, 

Dance no longer with the dead in the graveyard; 

Dance with me the mephisto waltz. 

Wedlock 'twixt day and night - 

Offer me relief fro the sunrays. 

R: Ah! such delight I sense: 

Savour the bitter grapes of life! 

LK: Eternally and ne'erendingly; 

A soulsister of thine I am. 

Let me openly greet thy kiss; 

The most loving and caring bites. 

R: Grant me thineself!, 

I bore the woe in my heart, 

My heart was shatter'd into its tithe, 

Save yet are its chambers in flood. 

LK: As I depart embrace me, 

And in paltry time will I re-awake - 

I love thee.