Of Your Beauty Lyrics - Singles - Virgin Black

Wearing robes of solemnity 

My senses stand erect 

This moment I am solitary 

As you watch me, eyeless 

Observe a brutal face 

I need silence, I need to be alone 

Look at me 

My bony fingers wrapped in rags 

I am pursued and love is withered 

My eyes will see, if my spirit lives 

The wind shouts its commands 

The earth has stopped my ears 

I dare not raise my hand 

To hold the stones around my throat 

I have heard of your beauty 

And would sacrifice my days 

These midnight wanderings 

And vain laments 

Pour upon me 

A sympathetic glance 

My splendour has gone 

you will find me face down 

let those days pass 

in sorrowful procession 

Among leafless groves 

May a leaf unfold 

I cry with rage 

To be remembered with pity 

Let the leaves unfold 

Where dead leaves have rotted 

Ask me what I suffer 

Years of fruitless clinging 

to enfeebled arms 

That wave of benevolent salute 

I have heard of your beauty 

Pursue me, beckon me 

to cast the stones from my throat 

in the earth's dark entrails 

My glazed eyes close forever 

My my eyes will see 

If my spirit lives