Lily of the Midnight Sky
Lily's Celestial Embrace: A Tapestry of Yearning and Radiance
Lyrics
Over the slow slide of continents
Describing the movement of continents slowly.
Over the salt pans pipelines masts and pavilions
Highlighting various man-made and natural features like salt pans, pipelines, masts, and pavilions.
Shimmering crescent moon recedes into working dawn
Observing the crescent moon disappearing as dawn begins.
Lone crow against pallid sky
A lone crow against a pale sky symbolizing solitude.
Single plume of white smoke on yellow speckled plain
Noting a single plume of smoke in a vast, speckled plain.
Yellowing leaves sparkle in cold breeze
Yellowing leaves sparkling in a cold breeze.
Wave patterns among wave patterns
Describing wave patterns in nature.
Particles disperse and rejoin
Particles dispersing and rejoining, possibly symbolizing life's cyclical nature.
Dissolve and reform like the lining of a womb
Comparing the dispersing and reforming particles to the lining of a womb, hinting at creation and renewal.
Still
Emphasizing a moment of stillness or pause.
The cold of your absence blows from
Feeling the cold of someone's absence from various everyday places.
The silent TV, the parking lot
Noting the cold from a silent TV, a parking lot, and a balcony with clothes waving.
The balcony with clothes waving good-bye and hello
Imagery of clothes on a balcony saying goodbye and hello, suggesting cycles of departure and return.
In the rising day
Entering the rising day.
You keep fading away
Expressing a sense of someone fading away.
Don't I know that you're always around
Acknowledging the constant presence of the person despite their fading.
I can reach you if I try
Asserting the ability to reach the person through effort.
Lily of the midnight sky
Referring to the person as the "Lily of the midnight sky."
Solders of sunrise, shooting into a forest of flowers
Depicting sunrise as soldiers shooting into a forest of flowers.
Slow motion
Describing the motion as slow, with petals floating in various colors.
Petals float into pink crimson white
Imagining petals growing wings and fluttering into the distance.
Grow wings
Metaphorically comparing petals to applauding hands in a stadium.
Flutter into mountainous distance
Expressing a fist raised against the sun that hides the person away.
Flutter like a stadium full of applauding hands
Comparing oneself to a rag in a bottle of gasoline, longing to ignite.
I raise a fist to the marauding sun that has hidden you away
Reference to Achilles, a symbol of vulnerability and strength.
I'm the rag in a bottle of gasoline
Seeing the person shining on the panther skin of night.
Longing to ignite
Expressing a desire to ignite like a flame.
Achilles
Referencing the mythical figure Achilles again.
All of you, shining on the panther skin of night
Addressing the person as part of the night and reflected in a black lake.
Mirrored in a black lake in a night that glistens like blood on gold
Describing the night as glistening like blood on gold.
Nobody else could be you
Acknowledging the uniqueness of the person.
If only I could see you
Expressing a desire to see the person.
I should be able to touch you somehow
Expressing a wish to touch the person.
I can reach you if I try
Reiterating the ability to reach the person through effort.
Lily of the midnight sky
Repeating the reference to the person as the "Lily of the midnight sky."
While you look from on high
Asking the person to smile from a high vantage point.
Spare a smile as I
Asking for a smile while putting on a metaphorical dog mask and howling, possibly suggesting vulnerability.
Put on my dog mask and howl for you
Expressing the ability to reach the person through effort once again.
I can reach you if I try
Repeating the reference to the person as the "Lily of the midnight sky."
Lily of the midnight sky
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