The Day You Love Lyrics - Emilie Autumn

Remember and tell me, the day you love 

Behind a veil of tears 

How dreams as these you dreamt not of 

And thought to pass your years 

More peaceably than others do 

Devoid of common pain 

Your own company pleased you 

And as you heard complain 

Of those small hurts that never heal 

And scar their victims deep 

You oft proclaimed your heart could feel 

No love and sought to keep 

Your perfect brow untarnished by 

The sorrow you would save 

Your perfect lips unvarnished lie 

To kiss might thee enslave 

Protected are thy limbs. No fear 

Of deeds unseemly grasp thee 

Directed by thy perfect ear 

No words could hope to clasp thee 

Indeed thou will not be enshrined 

Will honor no man's name 

But in disdain you are, you'll find 

Enshrined all the same 

In your defense, you say not so 

When standeth thee accused 

Of hatred for mankind, but O 

How hast thou been abused 

That such a mortal fear could frighten 

All your nature wills 

So much so that what might enlighten 

Passion, pity kills 

And cannot bear to look upon 

A soul you have enraptured 

With cruel haste you bid begone 

The fools you have encaptured 

Mistake me not, it is unjust 

For every lovestruck squire 

To claim a heart he hasn't won 

But what of your desire? 

Can'st thou pretend within thy breast 

A beat was ne'er misplaced 

And lost somewhere? 

Dost thou but jest 

To say thou never traced 

With trembling fingertips the image 

Of a foreign shore 

Embarking on a pilgrimage 

To where none touched before? 

The most deluded eyes could see 

Thou harbor'st in thy frame 

A store more rich than most should be 

In every sense's flame 

That thou dost feel, I know it well 

That thou dost weep, I'll swear 

That thou dost love, I'll live to tell 

If thou would only dare 

Remember and tell me, the day 

You love beyond all this 

What truth within my counsel lay 

And thank me with a kiss