So long ago it was
Beneath fragrant bowers we met
like pillars, oak and elm rose

towering over our heads
and spring was nigh


In youth we were heedless,
reckless and in love
Throwing care to the wind

Never noticing
Time meaned all
and all we held dear

So we dance in moonlight
Beneath starry skies
as gentle winds were stirred


Time could not catch us,
We dancers in twilight

For as swift as deer
We ran from him
For being young

We saw not that he would win
The Truth!
We could not see the Truth!

Straight as an arrow
We flew to him
He ran not behind

But before us

Years, how they flewed

And we were left,
two wanderers
roaming lost mid the trees

And the shadows that we'd made
were following, ever following
Weary of dancing now,

the race was over
for youth was spent
and we could not change

all that was done

Time can seem

such a bitter thing
for this is the song
he sang to us...


Curses you wrought and death pursued
In countless ways a doom you wooed

And it's left you here at last alone,
all alone


Wake now
Rise now
There remains a light ahead

and I see it!
It leads homeward
where Time can't follow

Time can't touch us
Sleep, he bid us sleep
Amid the stones we lay

He left us here

Sorrow heaped on sorrow

Yet beneath this crushing weight
we'll struggle through


It matters not what horrors
he may thrust on us
to weigh us down

He must not be given the final say

We'll loose the chains he's place on us

and head for home
His comrades gather close,
they are the Shadows of Regret;

they loom, we fall

Ex sepulchro atro gemimus
Pallidi trementes per frigus
Corda immota tamen errant

Curis anxa perpetuo
Inexpleta nam ardant