[01:04.07]Forgive the day’s
[01:05.74]Last serenades
[01:07.78]Her skies they bruise like Nordic women
[01:09.70]Deep crimson stains
[01:12.13]That Death would claim
[01:13.95]His robes of office swim in
[01:18.88]As would I
[01:20.01]For his dark eye
[01:21.45]Has fixed, a basilisk, a scythe
[01:25.54]On charred remains
[01:28.55]With shared disdain
[01:29.61]For those I chose to mortify
[01:34.31]Their cries have paralysed
[01:36.30]And the smoke has choked these vistas
[01:39.77]But still I lie, though tears have died
[01:44.45]On the grave of my Clarissa
[01:48.67]A verse for her whispered to the earth
[01:56.99]A lover’s curse is a see-through coffin
[01:58.79]Praises her curves so oft concurred
[02:00.70]Though she was
[02:01.94]No Snow White on the night she died
[02:06.15]Her shadower’s boon when the moon glazed over
[02:09.15]Lipped with blood and secrets pried
[02:23.68]For on and in they spread her wide
[02:26.17]That seraph bride
[02:28.50]The Devil’s pride
[02:30.18]Shalt soon avenge with swift reprise
[02:34.01]But they would writhe
[02:35.46]For my dark eye
[02:38.52]Bewitched, was fixed like Mordecai’s
[02:41.75]On Esther’s reign
[02:43.17]And in this vein
[02:44.09]I saw their lust still stain her thighs
[02:49.86]Their cries have paralysed
[02:52.03]And the smoke has choked these vistas
[02:57.48]But still I lie, though tears have died
[03:00.30]On the grave of my Clarissa
[03:10.56]Beneath these trees where the mist enwreathes
[03:12.34]Her spirit flees, seeing chains of torches
[03:14.44]A fleeting kiss stirring leaves of poetry
[03:17.99]I was no dark knight, breaking men like ice
[03:21.56]I was like a lycanthrope until the moon glazed over
[03:25.31]Lipped with blood and last goodbyes
[04:01.44]Now I dream
[04:04.52]Enwrapt in pure clouds of the sweetest oblivion
[04:08.18]Where beauty streams
[04:12.17]Freed from the teeth of those beasts that had come
[04:16.31]To tear out her spells
[04:19.21]In red lettered cells
[04:21.92]Wherein even the crown Prince of Hell
[04:25.02]Come out of his arrogant shell
[04:28.77]Would falter to better
[04:46.43]But her face soon dispels
[04:48.52]And as black feathers fell
[04:50.47]From heaven’s smoke
[04:52.72]So I woke to insanity
[04:54.77]Her exquisite corpse
[04:57.42]Found fit for their sport
[04:58.37]Of course
[05:00.33]Would burn on the morrow with me
[05:09.63]And there on this night
[05:22.67]Strung up in my sight
[05:24.08]Naked she sways
[05:25.84]Displayed for their vulgar delight
[05:29.27]I scream through my bars at the stars
[05:33.51]That for these crimes of mine solace me
[05:39.60]I will fear not the flames
[05:41.35]That to passion are tame
[05:43.36]Not nearly the same searing pain
[05:44.87]I pray
[05:46.46]As held sway upon losing her
[05:52.81]Nor the mettle of roars
[05:54.83]That will settle like ashes and scores
[05:56.67]As with our ghosts in the fog
[05:59.89]When we both turn no more