--DemonSong
The starlit nights o'er countless dreams
and airy kingdoms of the skies
of magics, hopes, and astral themes
and life surpassing death and lies
These things are born of fairey tales
and I counted as deceit
unworthy of my thought or voice
trod beneath relentless feet
Others' dreams and hopes I stole
their lives I counted cheap
their souls concerned me not at all
I prowled as wolf amongst the sheep.
In blood I did exult myself
in fire did I delight
red fanged I hunted and devoured
and stole and slew by night.
Across the sea of dreams I raged
a storm amongst the stars
a vengeful angel come to call
a blight of plague and wars
The cosmos I did set ablaze
with wrath's unholy light
and throughout I laughed and danced and played
flushed and drunk with might.
And then I fell....
My perch amongst the stars I lost
and tumbled down and down
thrown from lofty power's peak
and cast upon the ground
In nightmare's sleep I drew my breath
my sins and misdeeds black
upon my mind they gorged themselves
my soul with ruin wracked.
In this prison dark I delved
and dug both long and deep
Into my heart I hewed a pit
a grave in which to sleep.
Into that night I threw myself
to languish for my sins
and gave myself up to despair
ne'er to rise again.
In pain and cold and dark I cried
eternity to dread
suffering for evermore
to recompense the dead.
And I saw you...
As time wore on, and pain bore down
as hope and life were gone
into my hell a light did shine
a glimmer small and wan
I turned aside from that stray spark
unworthy to see light
but bright it grew, and filled my cell
and burned away my night.
And in that light I saw you there
a child, small and weak
and in my heart so frozen through
a voice began to speak
Into my soul this voice did drill;
my bonds began to break
pained remorse gave way to love
and something buried waked.
I could not recall from whence it came
or how it had been spurned
but I remembered now that I'd been loved
and from that lesson learned.
Through you my heart remembered love
and though I could not leave
I joined you as a shade at times
and so I gained reprieve.
And then you found me....
Finally, you came to me
and all my bonds you broke
and desperately I reached for you;
from nightmare I awoke.
You fled me then, not knowing me
nor what I had become
And tried to seal me up again
far from warmth and sun
Anger boiled in my breast
as you fled for fright
my wrath arose as I recalled
those long dark years of night
So when I found you out once more
my anger was untold
and I battled as in days of yore
a demon ages old
But my fire you put out that day
and as my anger cooled
my heart remembered seeing you
from hell's infernal pool
Since then I've kept you close to me
through danger and through trial
your wrath I've suffered and deserved;
small price to see your smile.
You cannot see how my heart breaks
that my love is not returned
Or how it cuts me to my heart
when your anger burns.
But pain I'll take, and gladly so
to stay here close to you
My heart, my soul I owe to thee
my love, forever true.
The starlit nights o'er countless dreams
and airy kingdoms of the skies
of magics, hopes, and astral themes
and life surpassing death and lies
These things are born of fairey tales
and I counted as deceit
unworthy of my thought or voice
trod beneath relentless feet
Others' dreams and hopes I stole
their lives I counted cheap
their souls concerned me not at all
I prowled as wolf amongst the sheep.
In blood I did exult myself
in fire did I delight
red fanged I hunted and devoured
and stole and slew by night.
Across the sea of dreams I raged
a storm amongst the stars
a vengeful angel come to call
a blight of plague and wars
The cosmos I did set ablaze
with wrath's unholy light
and throughout I laughed and danced and played
flushed and drunk with might.
And then I fell....
My perch amongst the stars I lost
and tumbled down and down
thrown from lofty power's peak
and cast upon the ground
In nightmare's sleep I drew my breath
my sins and misdeeds black
upon my mind they gorged themselves
my soul with ruin wracked.
In this prison dark I delved
and dug both long and deep
Into my heart I hewed a pit
a grave in which to sleep.
Into that night I threw myself
to languish for my sins
and gave myself up to despair
ne'er to rise again.
In pain and cold and dark I cried
eternity to dread
suffering for evermore
to recompense the dead.
And I saw you...
As time wore on, and pain bore down
as hope and life were gone
into my hell a light did shine
a glimmer small and wan
I turned aside from that stray spark
unworthy to see light
but bright it grew, and filled my cell
and burned away my night.
And in that light I saw you there
a child, small and weak
and in my heart so frozen through
a voice began to speak
Into my soul this voice did drill;
my bonds began to break
pained remorse gave way to love
and something buried waked.
I could not recall from whence it came
or how it had been spurned
but I remembered now that I'd been loved
and from that lesson learned.
Through you my heart remembered love
and though I could not leave
I joined you as a shade at times
and so I gained reprieve.
And then you found me....
Finally, you came to me
and all my bonds you broke
and desperately I reached for you;
from nightmare I awoke.
You fled me then, not knowing me
nor what I had become
And tried to seal me up again
far from warmth and sun
Anger boiled in my breast
as you fled for fright
my wrath arose as I recalled
those long dark years of night
So when I found you out once more
my anger was untold
and I battled as in days of yore
a demon ages old
But my fire you put out that day
and as my anger cooled
my heart remembered seeing you
from hell's infernal pool
Since then I've kept you close to me
through danger and through trial
your wrath I've suffered and deserved;
small price to see your smile.
You cannot see how my heart breaks
that my love is not returned
Or how it cuts me to my heart
when your anger burns.
But pain I'll take, and gladly so
to stay here close to you
My heart, my soul I owe to thee
my love, forever true.