Czeslaw Niemen - Mourner's Rhapsody lyrics

Shadow why are you leaving Lying with your hands on your armor plate Torches light up the coffin Sparks play around your knees Your sword green with laurel Covered with candle drippings Like mourner's tears Your falcon crying, and Your horse kicking up his legs Like a dancer Streamers flowing And chatting with each other in the wind Streamers like An army of tents flapping in the sky Trumpets sobbing a song That can break a heart of stone Symbols of another day Bow their heads and clap their wings Dragons pierced by spears Lizards and fabulous birds Proclaiming honor to you A legend in our own times Mourning maidens bearing jasmine Raise the sprays giving off perfume Other maidens fill the vases With their teardrops Still others tear their hair Searching for a way to show their sorrow Though the road of grief was paved ages ago Maidens smashing Pottery do the ground in their grief Others stumble on their way chanting "Clay unto clay" Young men swing axes at the sky Angry at their loss Serving men striking their shields 'til streams of sparks fly out Huge flags rising from the smoke Higher and higher Huge flags rising from the smoke And soaring up to the sky Slowly the mourners march ever downward Sinking into the Earth And than they march again into the moonlight Illuminated by the call light of a star Afraid to fall Voices fill the night And wash away like a wave Onward, onward Until we march right into the grave Onward 'til we see The blackness beyond the grave Onward 'til we can no longer escape the depths We will stop your horse With the thrust of a spear Screaming the procession Brings sadness into the village Striking screams against the gates Like whistling axes Making Jericho's wall fall down like falling logs Waking sleeping nations Lifting darkness from their eyes Onward, onward…