TRISTANIA LYRICS Widow's Weeds (1998) 1. Preludium ... 2. Evenfall 3. Pale Enchantress 4. December Elegy 5. Midwintertears 6. Angellore 7. My Lost Lenore 8. Wasteland's Caress 9. ... Postludium 1. Preludium ... [Instrumental] 2. Evenfall Call thy name at nightfall Reach out for thee life's rose Cast thy veils at sunset Trespass the waning in my halls Prosperous beauty Embraced by eden's heart Call thy name out tearful Reveal to me thy deepest loss Cast... make haste my savage wall for an end Thy savage... bleak night In life thy tears grow scarlet Come desired nightfall enchant my grievous loss Life bewailed at sunset Trespass the shadows in my heart Arise before me bequeath thy grievous loss Dark at heart I mourn thee Replace the vigour she once lost 3. Pale Enchantress Dark... thou embrace my bleeding heart My dreams... uniting our tearful eyes... enchanting At night... I kiss the serpent in thy tears For years... thy sorrow I've mourned Harken my moonchilds cry yearning for another night Mourning my once beloved mezmorized and ravendark My pale enchantress of the night at last my candle's burning down The wintermoon is shining bleak for thee my enchantress Enchanting all my dreams a beauty and her flood of tears Nightfall embrace my heart mezmerized and ravendark My pale enchantress of the night I desire thee Fearful I walk with thee... through dusk Through winds of loss... Her beauty and her flood embrace my bleeding heart Tearful I fall with thee... at last Lead me there... to where thy shadows cast They dance in velvet darkness lost Rise... bleak winterfullmoon Rise... In life... I kissed the serpent in thy tears For years... thy sorrow I mourned... 4. December Elegy May thou carry me to the sea Like autumn leaves... heaven wither Savage is the winter prevailing within I fall for thee... Sorrow entreating me Makes me leave heaven I find thy lilies there of snow where once I died... weeping for thee Everlasting seems the strife ascending within Falling for thee... Darkness confounding me Makes me leave life Breed my woe Descend with broken wings Midwinternight inside Merged by life... like thousand frozen tears Come melt the ice... maytime... 5. Midwintertears Shadowcast upon my heart endark... thy bleak midwintertears condemned to mourn in silence The pale moonrise in her eyes Serene... like a frozen stream the flowing beauty in thy tears I crave for thee my once beloved Beyond... the veils of darkness lost where now thy roses wrapped in dusk Dark enchantress I suffer thy fullmoonnights Trespass my undesired darkness Tears... flowing through thy dreams Dark enchantress the seventh fullmoon rise I drown in dusk and dark rivers Summon all my dreams like roses on your epigraph written in my tears thy sorrow and my bleeding heart She comes so serene my fallen beauty crowned with leaves Take me to thy dream Thy candle will forever burn in me... 6. Angellore Angellore... revered at dusk for thee I rose now descend... all alone Rise for me... soothe my heart so wide a sea may I overcome... 7. My Lost Lenore For thy promise bewailed by her raveneyes by her beauty and a scarlet sunrise May thy river bury her silvertears A fallen angel... enshrined in moonlit seas Leaving vitality so serene breeds my darkness Entreating winterwinds though I leave... I embrace thee Winternight conceal thy precious angellore I secrete my soul under thy wings of sorrow Dark I embrace thy eyes wander lost on life's narrow path I reveal my heart to this beauty dressed in dark Grieving raveneyes falls asleep with the sunrise Delightful midsummer breeze though I leave... I await thee Grant me thy last midsummer breeze May thou ascend from endless sleep ... my desire Dance me above thy moonli seas Glance yearningly into the deep a cold and weary night Widwinternight Descending me like flakes of snow I embrace the cold for a life that morrows Dark I embrace thy heart Wanderer lost beyond veils of dawn I conceal thy loss enthralled in life yett still I mourn My lost Lenore... 8. Wasteland's Caress I mourn thee by dusk I mourn thee by dawn Crave for thy gloss to seek the silent glades beyond precious a glance thy veils now unfold tearfull she dance into this nightfall I behold Grieve at night Thy bereavement and thy loss in life Grieve by day Thy devotion and thy pass away Beyond the veils of dawn from where she Siren calls The sunset seize within as I walk Through velvet dusk and dawn condemned to rise and fall So grievous through the night she calls the beauty I once lost I mourn thee my beloved Far beneath thy heavens lost where I once pale and cold beheld thy rarest rose... 9. ... Postludium [Instrumental]