IMPRESSIONS OF WINTER LYRICS

1. Promising Wake

I saw the raindrops drying there
As if they'd never been
I saw the spirit dying there
Once felt, but never seen

A riddle is your haggard mind
No fruit the seeds will bear
Behind your walls of harsh rebuff
The trembling flower fear

No meadows, forests full of life,
No spring with water clear,
No shy game lurks in undergrowth
Until your wake, my dear

2. Langueo (Silence Of Wine)

Seven years I waited for your words to shine
Seven whispers in my ears
Time was silent, seven tears to thin the wine
Faith upset by seven fears

All that I expected was an answer by your eyes
To this trembling fingers, to this shaky voice
The only shine to notice was reflection by the wine
Incidence or liquid hint at choice

Liquid stain is taking shape, just for a while
Shaped by wine or in our mind?
Like the whispers that have left your lips sometime
Seven mysteries entwined

3. Shadowed Grove

Unfold your hands, revel your eyes
A veil of tears will clear your sight
Consider thoughts - amazing price
Unleashed ideas - uncanny might

A shadowed grove your heart shall be
Not open plain, but vague and deep
Each word and glance like poetry
Beguiled by grains of wisdom steep

4. Bandar

Thick wafts of perfume
Stun my weary senses
Dreams unleashed are wandering

Odours like strange sounds
Strokes of warm desire
Chants upset my mind

Heavy incense
Temple bells
Dreams divine
Bandar

Black eyes all around my mind
They flow like sacred melodies
They penetrate my eyes and skin
Vibrations, heat and light

A pair of stars so manifold
And full of black intensity
Every glance another deep sensation

5. Festival Of Fools

Soramar al lemadur - Soramar Tosar
Eltaman Silatoc Ela tor Columo elasar
Sirador Curamarc
Ela tor anuroc Ivcadar

6. Omnis Mundi Creatura

[Alanus von Lille, 12th century]

Omnis mundi creatura
Quasi liber et pictura
Nobis est in speculum;
Nostrae vitae, nostrae mortis
Nostri status, nostrae sortis
Fidele signaculum
Sic aetatis ver humanae
Iuventutis primo mane
Reflorescit paululum;
Mane tamen hoc excludit
Vitae vesper, dum concludit
Vitale crepusculum.
Rosa dum primo mane floret,
Defloratus flos effloret
II:vespertino senio:II
Ergo spirans flos exspirat
In pallorem dum delirat
II:oriendo moriens:II
In nos primum dat insultum
Poena mortis gerens vultum
Labor mortis histrio,
Nos proponit in laborem
Nos assumit in dolorem
Mortis est conclusio

7. Ghosts Of The Forest

Dance in a glade
Strewn with blue flowers
Soaked with magic
In permanent gleam
Dewdrops are sparkling
A clear, crystal seed

How fragile
The fate of this scene
Any rude thought a danger
That threatens this
Sweet harmony like a spell

Oh, sensitive mind,
Take up this place
Outside no compassion
No romance no hope

No hope for the ghosts
Of the forest
Their old world is dying
Like some parts of us

8. Auctoritas Libri

[Thomas von Celano, 13th century]

Liber scriptum proferetur
In quo totum continetur
Unde mundus judicetur

Judex ergo cum sedebit
Quidquid latet, apparebit:
Nil inultum remanebit

9. Urechinaria

Upon our heads the moon was bright
Her light dripped dew-like down
Upon our cheeks the silken night
In vapoured air we drown

Upon our lips repressed respect
We knew not what to say
And sometimes inconsiderate
Some cruel words got away

Behind our backs debris and dust
We never turn our eyes
Deceived by our own memories
That mingle past and lies

Besides our way the flower delight
Grows sweet without an aim
And if her glow of hope shall die
Her beauty will remain

10. Landscape Of The Meadow Lost

[Charles Baudelaire, 19th century]

Au-dessus des ?tangs, au-dessus des vall?es,
Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers,
Par del? le soleil, par del? les ?thers,
Par del? les confins des sph?res ?toil?es,

Mon esprit, tu te meus avec agilit?,
Et, comme un bon nageur qui se p?me dans l'onde,
Tu sillonnes gaiement l'immensit? profonde
Avec une indicible et m?le volupt?.

Envole-toi bien loin de ces miasmes morbides;
Va te purifier dans l'air sup?rieur,
Et bois, comme une pure et divine liqueur,
Le feu clair qui remplit les espaces limpides.

Derri?re les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'?lancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins;

Celui dont les pensers, comme des alouettes,
Vers les cieux le matin prennent un libre essor,
- Qui plane sur la vie, et comprend sans effort
Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes!

11. The Recovering Of Spring

Circle will close
Reincarnation
Of colours and sweetness
Of growth and of change

Yesterdays covered
By carpets of green grass
Beneath blooming meadows
They're lying in wait

Beauty reopened
A struggle for heaven
Most swifts are returning
Most trees are reborn







IMPRESSIONS OF WINTER LYRICS