the Shroud Lyrics

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Pixy-led

Saw your smiling eyes
Quite unexpected in this everyday place
Never thought I'd follow something so familiar
Till I felt you calling me

Heard my sisters' voices
Singing a song that I hear in my heart
Though the words are foreign I know their meaning
I knew them all along

Blood and bones and falling leaves
Earth and rain will cover me

Take up the sword
Cut down the outside walls
Tear away this outward mask
And at last join the dance

I have found my way home
I have found my way...

Where The Wind Goes

Look away I know you're leaving me
Your words sharp as daggers
Cut me free

Hollow inside
No feelings to hold me down

I'll go where the wind goes
Nothing will tether me
I'll go where the wind goes
Nothing can hold me
You are gone And I am wandering
Under the starry sky Silently

Hollow inside
No feelings to hold me down

I'll go where the wind goes
Nothing will tether me
I'll go where the wind goes
Nothing can hold me
I'll go where the wind goes
Nothing will hurt me
I'll go where the wind goes
Nothing can hold me
I'll go I'll go I'll go where the wind goes...

Madeline

They fear her wildness and her strange ways
They cover their eyes
All alone she goes on her way, out of sight
She slips past the horizon...

Madeline sees the truth
Madeline keeps it to herself
She doesn't care what you think
She doesn't care...

They curse her, they destroy all she has made
They are filled with hate
She turns away and gathers up her world and takes it away
She slips past the horizon...

Madeline sees the truth
Madeline keeps it to herself
She doesn't care what you think
She doesn't care what you think...
They say she is gone never to return
But they see her in their dreams
She knows as well as they do nothing's ever as it seems
She slips past the horizon...

Madeline sees the truth
Madeline keeps it to herself
She doesn't care what you think
She doesn't care what you think...

And Then...

Your name is like a magic charm
I keep saying to myself
My thoughts tangle up around you
Only you can break the spell
We could walk into the shadows
You could be my friend
You could hold my trembling hand

Your voice is the only sound I hear
Falling over me like waves
My heart beats in time with yours
Shaping every breath I take
You could say you need me always
You could call my name again
We could kiss between the trees

If you only knew I was here
I know it would be just like this
We could walk into the shadows
You could be my friend
You could hold my trembling hand

You could say you need me always
You could call my name again
We could kiss between the trees

And then and then and then...

Day and Night

You hold me behind your fortress walls
Happy ever after, if I change my ways
You told your hearthside stories but left me out, no words for me
You shut out the world that you refuse to see

You are day and I am night and never the two will meet
I was born on a dark moon night and the rain never bothered me...

I tried to show you everything
I mean, but you just twist my words around
What is it you fear, do I change before your eyes?
You saw me through your own reflection but your image lied

You are day and I am night and never the two will meet
I was born on a dark moon night and the rain never bothered me...
You and I are day and night and you're too blind to see
All you'll find in your bright sunlight is that you don't know me...

You don't know what you're asking
You don't know what I am
You won't say my name and I don't want yours
Don't think you can save me
Don't think you know what's right
Some things must be believed to be seen...

Roses bloom on your skin so sweetly
Scented with your heart beating for me
Sighing, dying within this embrace
A thousand loves in one kiss taken away
Trembling with the thought of it
Drowning in roses
Roses fall from my lips for you
Taste the love we share eternally two
Sighing, dying within this embrace
Never have such things been shared or felt this way
Trembling with the thought of it
Drowning in roses
Trembling with the thought of it
Drowning in roses Roses...

It wasn't meant to be this way It wasn't part of the plan
Oh your eyes frighten me, take me back, to a moment I almost forgot
I saw the darkness behind them, shining brightly
Brighter than all the stars reflected in the night sky
Heaven shows me far too much
Let me close my eyes...

I remember when you came to find me, just like I'm seeing now before me
So much hidden in a simple kiss, a gentle caress
All of that darkness kept inside turned my words so strange and sad
This gift you've given to me keeps its meaning hidden deep inside me

Turns my days around, the rising sun lights my night
I never looked away I ran to you with open arms
Heaven shows me far too much Let me close my eyes...
Now I see your face again, I see your eyes again

Just like they were before....
The vision crashing in again
Raining down on me
Wind and rain burn the earth away
And I see the empty sky...

Another Time

Just yesterday I thought I heard your voice from the past
Once I thought that I was in another time another place with you
Now I know I'll find you in another time another place
A secret kept for so long it changed became a lie

Once I thought that I was in another time another place with you
Now I know I'll find you in another time another place (again)
A truth so strange that feeling that you've been there all along
Once I thought that I was in another time another place with you
Now I know I'll find you in anoher time another place

Let Me Hold On

How can you say the things I want you to say
When the words fall down, crumble and then they blow away
I need you to give to me the strength to see me through
A steady arm to catch me when I am falling and there's nothing to hold on to
Oh when everything slips away

How can I say the things I want to say to you
Helplessly I stumble ruining everything and there's nothing I can do
Oh when everything slips away

I'm sorry for everything I've done that changed your world
I didn't mean to do this to you
I'm sinking slowly
Pulling you down with me

I don't know how to let go
I want to say something that could change it all
But there are no words....
I would reach out to you
But I'm afraid of what you'll say
I'm afraid you'll turn away
I want to say something that could change it all
But there are no words...

So much that you're losing, so much that I'm losing too
What is this that I have given away selfishly
Is there any way that I can escape all this
How much can I tear away and still have something left to hold...

Cup

I fill my cup with the sound of the sea
Singing, whispering, breathing as I breathe

I fill my cup with the scent of the trees
Dewdrop, fallen leaves, dancing in the breeze
In my dreams these ancient things are made new again
I drink them in bring them forth now as they were then

copyright 1997 the Shroud Lyrics by Lydia