WHITE WILLOW LYRICS

1. Anamnesis

I have seen Fields of green Dark skies glowing Rivers flowing And I have felt their yearning And I have known their secret

Nature's pain Falls like rain Feel her beauty Know her duty Mirror me Make me see Lead my longing To belonging I will remember skies I once knew And in the fullness all things anew

If silence is a word If heaven is a voice I once heard Tie me a ribbon of golden thread

If summer is a place Of twilight stars and shimmering haze Tie me a ribbon of golden thread

If sadness is a key To lullabies the wind sang for mee Tie me a ribbon of golden thread

2. Paper Moon

A paper moon on fire Sheds ashes on the sea It's closer now than yesterday As close as it will never be

An hour left to dreaming Of moments lost in time And seconds of lucidity I thought would not abandon me

I have a faded picture Of joy in amber light As instant burnt away too soon Like visions of paper moon

Hold on paper moon You came, and left too soon

3. The Crucible

[Instrumental]

4. The Last Rose Of Summer

She sits by the window Gazing at the frozen river Her hands clasped tight above her heart A tear runs down her cheek She starts to shiver

Memories that haunt her Summer nights that came and went Like winds that move the willow's leaves Today the last leaf fell The tree is bent

Once there was a springtime With flowers of the deepest blue And he came from the south-land Bearing gifts of love And hope so sweet

Now summer is long gone And gone those eyes of deepest blue And hope lies withered on the ground As will the last red rose Held to her breast

5. Gnostalgia

Faintly as the shadows Of evening gently fall Across the fields and meadows A raven sounds its call

Carried by a current Of pain and memory Across the seas of slumber Its calling reaches me

And I must follow This voice of longing Past fields of sorrow And no tomorrow

Wrapped in shades of nightfall The stars will light my path Forever flying homewards On wings of broken song

And if their light should flicker The voice will carry on As echoes in a quiet land Where spirits may go strong

I lift the veil of ashes To find the road to heaven And in blindness find my sight I drink the silence of light

And when this cup is empty The sky will burts upon us And its waters wash away All but our sky-bound way

6. The Reach

Towers tall Stand before me As I leave the hall To heed this call

High above Roses climb As evening's hours die A distant cry

I must leave All behind Shed all those ties that bind My tethered mind

Darkened light I must take care Never shine to bright Stay out of sight

Once, on a windswept shore I stood alone Sensed that far cry Across the reach

Tool the bell For this sad world Was my prison cell A pleasant hell

End this pain End my time In this blind god's domain Of brutal claim

Fragrant night Give me shelter From these stars too bright And hide my flight





WHITE WILLOW LYRICS