Lighthouses for the Dead (The Isle of Cinder II)

from An Infinity Emerged by A Dream of Poe

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lyrics

I looked into the world:
An island of cinder, uncoiled
O’er tender waters, unspoiled
Below my feet, land so gray;

By my own hands I was its prey
Hunted by a world tired of hope.
An island snake
Gave in to despair.
Waters engulf her:
Mighty hands ready to take
The temple down.
Forsaken now.

I taint its shores with blood
A choir of lamentations misunderstood
I murder what is left of you:
Burning bones o’er waters to renew.

I prevail over the serpent,
Black and deep.
Rock shatters as I sleep
Under the ancient current.

Alone and scattered in dread
Our hearts are lighthouses for the dead,
Oh oceanic sons and daughters of loss.
Even though thy suffering has been fed
Try and come across
The vile tempests that entwine
All the words we have shed.

I look into the distance
Into a land without you.
Guided by the dusty snake,
Spectral lights I pursue.

She swallows me.
She takes me away:
This living land of ash takes me undersea
To bury at long last what I thought was given freely.

She swallows me.
Dark waters engulf me.
Down by the tides of gravity
To bury at long last what I thought was given freely

My temple is down.
Forsaken now on an island of ghosts.
These macabre and unholy hosts
Tear my Tower down
As the Fool wears his crown.

(Let me fail. Let my lighthouse be forgotten.
Send me ever down these waters
Laid bare together with my sins.)

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from An Infinity Emerged, released October 19, 2015

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