Anyone's Daughter - Adonis lyrics

The marble cathedral keeps his pale face in beauty and decay he came and bought a grave among the eternal - come away lies as if in clear water sleep he lay haste while it's the blue italian day! Watch his soul burnin through nights of time smile like a infant smiles to the dead and a light along the gra** is spread watch his soul burnin through nights of time. Oh, weep for Adonis the quick dreamer the pa**ion-winged minister of thoughts Which were his flock, which at the living stream Of his young spirit he fed and he taught. The love which was his music stopped - not kindling wise his brain But drooped thoughts when they coursed and mourned a lot. Round his cold heart, where after their sweet pain They never gather strenght or find a home again And other came - desires and adorations Winged persuasions and veiled desperations, Splendour of gloom and glimmering incarnations Of hope and fear and twilight sensations. They came in rust and silver - the parade might seem like Pageantry of mist on na autumnal stream. My head was bound with fantasies overblown A light spear topped with a cypress cone The faint flock of my youth the dew all changed To tears to sighing truth Lost echoes sit amid the impa**ible thought Feelings were wild and set them at nought The faint flock of my youth the dew all changed To tears to sighing truth Such were the struggles of that gloomy hour When i ordered the poison d**h-cold power. Quenched its caress upon my icy lips And moolinght vapour which the cold nights clips Its flushed through my pale limbs and pa**ed to its eclipse While down the pathway to his homeland pain He met with smiling gestures the pensive train. The thoughts of Adonis once were delights Now sending feelings in my open mind. The one remains with many change and pa** Life like a dome of many-coloured gla** Beyond all words, beyond its spacious fantasy Is fire for which all thirst Now look - how it beams on me You whose sail not to the tempest exposed Your mast will break just like a barren bow. Remeber Adonis - now he's dead And feel the things which fill your head The ma**y earth and sphered skies are riven Whilst burning throught the inmost veil of heaven The soul of Adonis, like a star Beacons from the abode where the eternals are