Bring Forth Ye Shadow Lyrics - Velvet Darkness They Fear - Theatre Of Tragedy

Time is an abyss - 

Profound as a thousand nights; 

I sojourn my haste, I make respites 

For what availeth this eager peace? 

One step more naught to face, 

Save the heirloom fatal kiss. 

I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate, 

For lo! my own shall ne'er come to me, 

Yet! - Who doth my future narrate? 

Dim the lights - I cannot see! 

Bring forth ye Shadow! - 

With whom danceth thou? 

Time hath stopp'd - 

Yet for others ne'er halteth; 

For me the Pages of Life do not turn, 

Lo! - on the funeral pyre they burn. 

The oh so eathing Velvet Darkness they fear - 

Heed! - wherefore delve a burrow, 

When in my arms "O! Come here"? - 

I say, elsehither is naught but sorrow! 

For what deemest thou so dear thy blood 

When through my veins it could flood? - 

Bide to merry-make me unaptly; 

And hence grant me the fell gift, 

The gift of passing on the dark trick. 

'Tis such a brazen act of erotic; 

Trifle for thee, yet for me grandly thrift, 

O! such an innocence depriv'd so hastily - 

Alas, for what deemest thou so dear thy blood 

When through my veins it will flood?