Years and Tears

Jane Schmetterling

Compositor: Jane Schmetterling

Now I see a young, pale lady
As white as ivory
Here, she lies unconsciously
On the top of a cliff so high
She's hanging on an endless height
And now her body falls down
Towards the light

I can see her fate
From beginning to end
As a mortal snake
So fast, grabs her tiny hand

Like a fatal bracelet
Vibrating its deadly sign
Its fangs on her wrists
Her life ends before the night

Her blood, drop by drop
Trickling in spectral silence
Falls like red roses
Life extinguished without a license

The air of her life is escaping
Like a butterfly breaking free
In her last breath
Time closes her with blackened key

Like sands in the hourglass
Nothing else circulates in her veins
Red and lost warm drops
Time is like a vampire in flames

She falls from a precipice
Floating in the air like a feather
Cold winds carry her away from that rock
A sad vision in a creepy weather

She lands in wheat fields
Her chill body still pale and fresh
Starving wolves howl with joy
Circling and tasting her sweet flesh

Nothing remains of her
Just some bones drying in the Sun
Day after day, her fate
Was forgotten and done

Oh my God, now I see big paws
Countless mammoths over them
The weight looks like cruel dinosaurs
Crushing dry bones on the land

Once upon a time
Pretty princess danced in the green meadows
She was captured in the forest
By a demon from the valley of the shadows
From the valley of the shadows
Valley of the shadows
Shadows in the shadows
In the valley of the shadows