Single Phial lyrics
Song information
Artist: Skyclad
Album: The Answer Machine?
Lyrics
I have walked the earth so many times before your birth
Today is only yesterday's tomorrow
And as a gardner in eden it was I who sowed the seed then
I've come to reclaim this life you borrow
Singing 'ring a ring o' rosies' for your final lullabye
Have you any prayers to make before you wave your last goodbye ?
I bring 'a pocket full o' posies' - lay a wreath to ease my guilt
As the light's go out forever not one drop of blood was spilt
[Chorus:]
As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial
I'd have rather seen your face almost any other place
Still here we meet - always the way in this profession
And as I gaze into your eyes - I see the glimer within dies
From ther moment I first make my dark confession
How could I swear I would be there for you, until your dying day
Certain in the knowledge that it's not that far away?
So you leave me sitting here bewildered as a new dead ghost
While I try to justify destroying that which I love most
As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial
The dark millenium is ending - final daze of the decayed
And a reign of tears is falling - it's the judgement eve parade
Though I wash my hands a thousand times - still the guilt remains
She stole my heart - I took her life ..
(And yet I never knew her name)
As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial
Out with a whimper - not with a bang
And they all gathered round while the church bell rang
Singing 'bring out your dead' they 'll stretch for miles
To be bourne to their graves in single files
[Chorus:]
As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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