Dead Can Dance



Thought that you knew it all
Well you've seen it ten times before
Thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won

I love slow, slow. slow but deep
Feigned affections wash over me

Dream on my dear
And renounce temporal obligations
Dream on my dear
It's a sleep from which you may not awaken

You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum

You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in disillusionment

I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you

I thought that you had it down
With both your feet on the ground
I thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won

I love slow, slow but deep
Feigned affections wash over me

You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum

You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm doing time in a domestic graveyard

I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you

Never let it be said I was untrue
I never found a home inside of you
Never let it be said I was untrue
I gave you all my time
I gave you all my time
 


In the hush before the first breath,
where silence gathers like a veil,
I call the unnamed flame
that sleeps beneath my ribs.

O ancient pulse of hidden stars,
remember me into your fire.
Let my bones become a temple drum,
my blood a river of returning light.

Between shadow and ember
I stand unarmed,
yet clothed in the wind
of forgotten hymns.

Invoke the sun behind my eyes,
unseal the gate of living stone.
May every wound turn into wisdom,
every exile into home.

I am the echo and the source,
the pilgrim and the shrine.
From dust I rise in sacred breath —
and dust becomes divine.
 
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