Shadow Duet lyrics

\Voice of the Shadow of Beauty\

/Voice of the Shadow of Darkness/

\shadows play

in my wilderness' mindscape they seek\

/one spiteful and wicked

one humble and meek/

\a windswept pale landscape

of edified thought\

/two frictional forces

a triad have brought/

\woven\

/a soft breeze whispers slowly/

\within me\

/in the valley of my mind/

\the aerial mists sink falling\

/and its breath both foul and holy

is like the deer to a dying hind/

\slowly traversing the atmosphere calling\

/calling, wordless, yet in soul so true/

\nameless, yet it lives in you\

/shapeless like the purity of pain/

\lawful when all fear is slain\

-one shadow of beauty caressing the flowers

the paleness of winter reflects in her eyes-

\deity of stardom\

/enticer of stardoom/

\so soft and so silent\

/maternal - eternal/

\serenity fades\

/blinded by visions of sunlight nocturnal/

\with the darkening of skies\

/one shadow of darkness

a shade of deep hate

a wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze

in sheets of sharp silver

laid youthful to die

reborn into vengeance

dark flames dance in grace

dark flames dance in grace

in the grace of storms/

\one shadow of beauty\

/one shadow of darkness/

\sailing free on the sea within my mind\

\surging dark oceans

perpetual waters

creator of life

and reclaimer of souls\

/mother ocean/

\watching the deep fjords uneasily moving\

/whipping the white waves towards the cold air/

\rising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion\

/a cascade of lost feathers

adrift on the sea/

\hark\

/a serenade in the tongue of the wind/

\the sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower

hovering further athwart a leafy cover\

/a shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither

and therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither

alas, in tune with the tide of time

i was, but I'm not

nor I'll be with its pride

yes, aeons have flown

but more is to come

for I know time/

/a friend that I greet with open arms/

a brotherhood of deadly harm and joy

\but time is not eternal, their life stars not immortal\

\setting souls can never

pass through the pearly portal\

\no bliss be given\

\nor joy\

/flowing down the gates of hell fire/

\i cry for you...\

/don't spill your tears for me

but for your kit and kin/

\my scions of light?\

/deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure

which is the fuel for life and glory/

\silent your dark desires within entirety's light\

-solitude

sanctity

sanctuary

sanctum, sanctum,

sanctum (tranquility)

\hear me

/you who hold the fate of stars in hand

before creation's eye I stand

my soul set free/

\in summerland\

\mighty the strand of the universe\

/a chaos void tomb of dead worlds/

\hark\

/what?/

\divinity flows in your heart

cast it alight, the seed of all art

slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind\

/silent, you fool/

\a cradle of roses

embedded in stillness and shade\

/silent, you fool

thine words are untrue

remember Endymion's crestfallen tears

Serene art the gods, yet pain is their way

he touched by the heavens

his hellfire nears

a silent divinity, now see your body of air/

\free now your heavenly body of air\

\come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one

holding the fate of all life in both hands

breathing life-force

like gold made from sand\

/my winged steed of moonlight

black stallion of thunder

we rode above the greenish earth

and tore the green asunder/

\but what you left bleeding

destroyed a soulforsaken world

and your deeds of sharp silver

decoyed a mindforsaken herd\

\a duet of shadows\

a duet of shadows

\a duet of thoughts\

a duet of thoughts

\of beings we feed

with the dust of our thoughts

residing within us

the two-fold wheel of life

of insight created: a triad of jewels\

a thin leaf of the life-tree's truth

• Artist:Dark Tranquillity
• Album:Skydancer (1993)