The Masquerader And Phoenix Lyrics - Velvet Darkness They Fear - Theatre Of Tragedy

Hist! - the sonorous orchestral ambience and the arabesque-slane'd ballerina, 

Her wee feet in an alacritic maelstrom-twirl, 

And the dust-hurl with her tears blendeth - Egad! this quagmire; 

Pasteth her unaptly apt feet to the stage: 

Like the wither'd rose of the luciferous Eden 

By the mummer'd-masquerader espied vigilly and mockingly, 

His behesting visage, tho' ruddily mummer'd 'tis - 

Embower'd and eddying oft and eft gloam by gloam, 

Her sweetness ne'er cloy - further! further! - 

His scratching and dallying hollow-hearted eyes 

Her breasts and vestal heart caress, 

And like the dove and bird of prey leapeth she aerily, 

Whileas the orchestra playeth on travailingly; 

His one and sole swath 

With the pizzicato'd ensemble blendeth - 

And her umbral foetal scream - 

As the song climaxeth 

And slowly 

Dieth away...