The Raven Child

Wild groves, sacred grounds fade to vastness

Mother Moon, cast your spell on these fields

Let the boughs paint ghostly shades on the trail

To a different world

Where the castle looks out to a valley

Where I'm given all the love that I crave

Not afraid of the rising sun

Laying bare my brittle soul

Cold is the wind

Bringing forth clarity

Time rushing on

And nothing will remain

There's no glory on the last journey home, home

Home, home

Home, home

Home, home

Looking down from this pure cup of heaven

Unto an ocean of white

That drowns all the noise and decree

And the craze in empty eyes

Wide-eyed, I'm lost in my imagination

A dream of love I've got to suffocate while I keep on waiting

For the hour I'll be called to realize

And see it all before my eyes

The sky is crawling down the mound

Into the deadwood on the ground

They say

Spectres flare and spit and rise

To mingle with the skies

And take all that's never meant to be

A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way

Gotta run and never get away

Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?

Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie?

A lonely heart in an endless line

Oh raven child, yeah

Raven child

Bewildering and strange

The scent of spring and cherry blossoms

Sweet scent of rain

They're calling you

Astounding how it is

Not the same it used to be

When you're compelled behind the crenel on your own

The tolling of the bell

Is there anyone to tell me what they wanna say?

Voices go on and on and on to me

But their tongues won't permeate throughout my soul

In your altered state of mind

In vain you're chasing light, yeah

You're mastering his frown

Denial of the crown of creation

You're made to think you are

A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way

Gotta run and never get away

Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?

A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way

Gotta run and never get away

Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?

Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie?

A lonely heart in an endless line

Light breeze in the crowns of the willows

Green fields as if the day was on the wane

Grow faint and attain to perfection

What a backdrop for a diamond

So we sway in the wind like the willow

Meant to give way to the order of the storm

Won't leave a mould in the marsh of the ages

A tired chevalier of fortune

Blue and serene once a sky swanned on magic

The unborn in the stream of destiny

Time flows to become a mound of nothing

For a broken soldier of fortune, on my

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

The way you're shown you're goin' now

Comin' down, goin' all the way now

You won't get away, you know finally

Into the light

In the light there's a crack torn open

From underneath the day

In the light, but a crack, is it growing?

Feel the dark rolling in, your way

Feel the light look away, it's gonna blind you

Ignite your spirits, fly

See a light to uncloak their master

To arouse the beaten mind

In the light there's a crack torn open

From underneath the day (you dream and fly)

In the light, but a crack, is it growing?

Feel the dark rolling in your way (hey, raven child)

Feel the light look away, it's gonna blind you

Ignite your spirits, fly

Uncloak the raven master

To arouse the beaten mind, yeah, oh, oh, oh, yeah

You tuck away yourself inside

You ride away on the inmost light

Your soul glowing opal-blue

A million voices fade away

I never really got what they're trying to say

For words there's no getting through

Oh, you sail to the night's plutonian shore

You drift to sleep, you can't take no more of this

And like a raven child

You spread your paltry wings and throw

Yourself into the wind to escape from all below

That despised the raven child

Am I awake or is it an evil dream

Or maybe the ugly in between?

Like me, a weak hermaphrodite

A broken soul in unimpaired parts

In quest for light but it was the dark

That embraced the raven child

A cloak of invisibility

To curtain the fate of deformity, no

Darkness let me in

Off to the night's plutonian shore

You dream and hope you won't wake no more to this (oh fiery eyes)

Fly raven child (oh fiery eyes)

Fly raven child

Oh, to escape from all below

Spread your wings and go

Like a raven child