IMPRESSIONS OF WINTER LYRICS

1. Endless Summer

Outside this awful burning sun
- the same way as it all begun
But now I do not longer care
No joy is waiting anywhere

I swallowed dust, I swallowed rain
Some clouds that dry, some clouds that drain
All things delivered by the air
Each pain that found me anywhere

2. Salty Tears

If I should struggle again
Please keep me in your arms
And sing a little song for me

Please don't go
Please don't go
Please don't go now

If I should cry again
Please spread your wings above me
And keep my salty tears for me

Please don't go
Please don't go
Please don't go now

3. Monument

The monument of God
- it crumbles into sand
Forgotten and decayed
- the writing of his hand

The monument of God
- it crumbles into sand
From prayer to epitaph
- a crucial question's end

These times spread out their influence
Through patterns of our lives
Miseries were normalized
And grey dust was a coloured sign

Walking through this ancient tomb
Forgotten past, surprising, cleaned
So have you seen what I have seen
And ever felt what I have been

4. Season's End

Another pretty season's end
With pretty smiles of many a friend
Once more I wished it would be spring
And trees would grow and birds would sing

Indeed the trees were fresh and green
With juicy leaves and stems so lean
But words and songs were just some noise
Some murmuring, no single voice

Some eyes were fixing any place
Besides, the brightness of your face
Was simply lighted by the sun
No deep delight, just simple fun

5. Love-Letter

[Dante Gabriele Rossetti, the 18th century]

Warmed by her hand and shadowed by her hair
As close she leaned and poured her heart through thee,
Whereof the articulate throbs accompany
The smooth black stream that make thy whiteness fair,
Sweet fluttering sheet, even of her breath aware,
Oh let thy silent song disclose to me
That soul wherewith her lips and eyes agree
Like married music in Love's answering air.

Fain had I watched her when, at some fond thought,
Her bosom to the writing closelier press'd,
And her breast's secrets peered into her breast;
When, through eyes raised an instand, her soul sought
My soul, and from the sudden confluence caught
The words that made her love the loveliest.

6. Eternal Grey

All around eternal grey
The colours have all disappeared
No trees or flowers besides my way
Eternal grey, eternal grey

The promises, the words you spoke
It seems that they were never true
It doesn't matter what you do
I've cleared my memory from you

Nothing more for me to pay
Sunset locked up in a jar
Some light at the horizon far
Is just some halftones anyway
Of nothing but eternal grey

After all a seed will sprout
First covered well, but then come out
A bloom unfolds, it seems to pray
With seven petals, pale and grey

Pale-green sea, leaden sky,
Pale-green sea, far-off sigh

7. Suspiria

[Thomas von Celano, the 13th century]

Levis exurgit Zephyrus
Et sol procedit tepidus
Iam terra sinus asperit,
Dulcore suo diffluit.

Ver purpuratum exiit,
Ornatus suos induit,
Aspergit terram floribus,
Ligna silvarum frondibus.

Quod oculis dum video
Et auribus dum audio,
Heu, pro tantis gaudiis
Tantis inflor suspiriis.

Tu saltim veris gratia
Exaudi et considera
Frondes, flores et gramina,
Nam mea languet anima

8. Elements

Dying flowers, hidden places,
Drops of blood in milk,
Satin eyes and mystic faces,
Monuments and silk,

Moonlight, jewels fleeing schemes,
Beauty, roses, golden dreams,
Bones of birds and cloudy skies,
Troubled waters,
And wolves with yellow eyes

Elements of a mental landscape
Elements of melancholy
Elements of me

9. The Awakening

My dear, I died so long ago
Cold is my heart, and dull my soul
Oh, I was sure to love you so
But all my mind's a shapeless hole

Look, no more objects, no ideals
They're shattered; and ahead no goal
No hand that guides, no hand that heals
Each day means going on the prowl

And morning comes; I'm thrown again
Out of the nightmares into day
And sleep is pain and wake is pain
Both ground and heaven slightly sway

10. Epilogue

Goodbye forever ye halcyon days
Scattered in pieces the sweet promise lays
That once filled the air like a sweet chilly breeze
At first cool and gentle, but then made me freeze

Some day you'll awake and you'll know it's too late
Your hopes and desires just scattered by fate
Your memories stained by the present you bear
Your future's as grey as the coat that you wear

Your songs are forgotten, alas
Your roses are dead
The wind blows, they whisper and rustle
All the swallows have fled







IMPRESSIONS OF WINTER LYRICS