Floating Towards Distress Lyrics - Singles - Autumn

She runs to the river down below 

Towards a boat under a willow 

Away from the mirror, the loom and the tower 

Where she yearned for him, hour after hour 

Under a sky like a dark blue dome 

Stands the queen of loneliness 

A skin as white as the rivers foam 

Which tips the hem of her dress 

A crown of a pearl garland she wore 

Blinking to Camelot in moonlight 

To which she stares, through tears 

Tears that are clouding her sight 

A forlorn goddess 

Seeking for her God 

Carving in the stern 

The lady Shallot 

Like a prophet seeing the entire future 

She looses the chain 

While death stretches its hand and lures 

Seizing her to gain 

Paralysed and in distress, she floats 

Into the night by darkness clothe 

When the lady sings a mournful song 

Chanting through the spheres of night 

Where it dissolves at the horizon 

Like her life 

Undone...