An angel with coal painted feathers washed ashore An angel that needn't be cleansed anymore All the earth and air with out substance smeared On days passed heaven overflowed Now with a thousand clouds covered In the broad white dawn All the lights so strangely float From rainbow fallen in the glowworm's light Under the bodies of dew we were still It's all so clear, like silver from gold Once this was our will Silver like the ebb and tide gone by Silver the farewells and goodbyes This is for the stillness of empty days For the nevers... and the always Like the sorceress in you in the light of these thoughts We'd stay till we ran out of fears You gave me a world of reasons to endure And once we were here