My Shrine of Flesh
Elegy of Love and Loss: Darker by Design's Haunting Tale
Lyrics
Let the burial rite be read
Expressing the commencement of a burial ritual.
The funeral song be sung
Highlighting the performance of a funeral song.
Who shall sing the requiem
Pondering who will sing the requiem.
Wrought by the spit of sorrow's tongue?
Asking about the source of the sorrow that influences the requiem.
An emptiness befell me
Describing a feeling of emptiness that has overcome the speaker.
Before the hollowed husk the darkness bore
Referring to a hollowed husk born from darkness.
Whose hallowed soul ensnared by the tempest of night's plutonian shore
Describing a soul ensnared by the tempest of the night's plutonian shore.
Was it amour that enthralled me or was it madness that implored
Reflecting on whether it was love or madness that influenced the speaker.
My revelries, most appalling, within her cadaver I explored
Revealing disturbing actions within a cadaver, possibly symbolic of exploration.
I squandered the beauty that haunted the harrowed dark
Expressing regret for wasting the beauty associated with the dark.
Sordid - my touch that ensnared her buried heart
Describing the corrupt nature of the speaker's touch that captured a buried heart.
Oh how the dead doth sing for you, my darling
Describing how the dead sing for a beloved person.
Those nights I dreamt away
Recalling nights spent dreaming away.
I lost myself when your golden eyes fell to grey
Expressing a sense of loss when the beloved's eyes turned grey.
Prayeth for morrow to deliver me from thy deathly queen
Praying for deliverance from a deathly queen and acknowledging unseen horrors.
Oh, what horrors hath thee, the exalted seen
Pondering the transformation of beloved eyes into a dark shade.
For thine eyes I loved now ebon as the plume the ravens wore
Expressing a desire for deliverance and rejecting it with a reference to "nevermore."
Deliverance, I shall ask - nevermore
(Blank line)
Let the burial rite be read
Repeating the beginning of a burial ritual.
The funeral song be sung
Repeating the mention of a funeral song.
Who shall sing the requiem
Repeating the question of who will sing the requiem.
Wrought by the spit of sorrow's tongue?
Repeating the inquiry about the source of sorrow influencing the requiem.
An emptiness befell me
Repeating the description of an emptiness overcoming the speaker.
Before the hollowed husk the darkness bore
Repeating the reference to a hollowed husk born from darkness.
Whose hallowed soul ensnared by the tempest of night's plutonian shore
Repeating the description of a soul ensnared by the tempest of the night's plutonian shore.
Oh, how the dead doth sing for you, my darling
Repeating the description of the dead singing for a beloved person.
Those nights I dreamt away
Repeating the recollection of nights spent dreaming away.
I lost myself when your golden eyes fell to grey
Repeating the expression of loss when the beloved's eyes turned grey.
Oh, how the dead doth sing for you, my darling
Repeating the description of the dead singing for a beloved person.
Those nights I dreamt away
Repeating the recollection of nights spent dreaming away.
I lost myself when my sodden eyes fell to your grave
Repeating the expression of losing oneself when the speaker's eyes fell to the beloved's grave.
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