The Raven Child lyrics

[Hansi Kürsch & Tobias Sammet:]

Wild groves, sacred grounds fade to vastness

Mother Moon, cast your spell on these fields

Let the boughs paint ghostly shades on the trail

to a different world

Where the castle looks out to a valley

Where I'm given all the love that I crave

Not afraid of the rising sun laying bare

my brittle soul

Cold is the wind bringing forth clarity

Time rushing on and nothing will remain

There's no glory on the last journey home, home..

Home, home

Home, home

Home, home

[Tobias Sammet & Hansi Kürsch:]

Looking down from this pure cope of heaven

Onto an ocean of white that drowns

all the noise and decree

and the craze in empty eyes

wide-eyed I'm lost in my imagination

A dream of love I've got to suffocate

while I keep on waiting

for the hour I'll be called to realize

and see it all before my eyes

The sky is crawling down the mound

into the deadwood on the ground

they say

Spectres flare and spit and rise

to mingle with the skies

and take all that's never meant to be

A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way

Gonna run and never get away

Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?

Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie?

A lonely heart in an endless line

Oh raven child

Raven child

[Jorn Lande & Tobias Sammet:]

Bewildering and strange

the scent of spring and cherry blossoms

Sweet scent of rain

they're calling you

Astounding how it is

not the same it used to be

when you're compelled behind

the crenel on your own

The tolling of the bell

Is there anyone to tell me

what they wanna say

Voices go on and on and on to me

But their tongues won't permeate

throughout my soul

In your altered state of mind

In vain you're chasing light

Your master in his frown

Denial of the crown of creation

you're made to think you are

[Tobias Sammet:]

A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way

Gonna run and never get away

Is it love that glows in fiery alignment ?

A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way

Gonna run and never get away

Is it love that glows in fiery alignment ?

Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie?

A lonely heart in and endless line

[Jorn Lande, Tobias Sammet, Hansi Kürsch & Choir:]

Light breeze in the crowns of the willows

Green fields as if the day was on the wane

grow faint and attain to perfection

what a backdrop for a diamond

And so we sway in the wind like the willow

Meant to give way to the order of the storm

Won't leave a mould in the marsh of the ages

A tired chevalier of fortune

Blue and serene once a sky swanned on magic

The unborn in the stream of destiny

Time flows to become a mound of nothing

for a broken soldier of fortune

Oh my...

Comin' down

goin' all the way now

You won't get away

you know

Finally the way you're shown

you're goin' now

[Jorn Lande & Tobias Sammet:]

Into the light

In the light there's a crack torn open

from underneath the day

In the light

but a crack

is it growing?

Feel the dark rolling in, your way

Feel the light look away

it's gonna blind you

Ignite you

spirits fly

See a light to uncloak their master

To arouse the beaten mind

In the light there's a crack torn open

From underneath the day

You dream and fly

In the light

but a crack

is it growing?

Feel the dark rolling in your way

Hey raven child

Feel the light look away

it's gonna blind you

Ignite you

spirits fly

Uncloak the raven master

to arouse the beaten mind

You tuck away yourself inside

You ride away on the inmost light

Your soul glowing opal-blue

A million voices fade away

I never really got what they're trying to say

For my words there's no getting through

Oh, you sail to the night's Plutonian shore

You drift to sleep

you can't take no more of this

and like a raven child

you spread your paltry wings and throw

yourself into the wind to escape from all below

that despised the raven child

Am I awake or is it an evil dream

or maybe the ugly in between

like me

a weak

hermaphrodite

A broken soul in unimpaired parts

In quest for light but it was the dark

that embraced the raven child

A cloak of invisibility

To curtain the face of deformity

No

darkness let me in

Off to the night's Plutonian shore

You dream and hope

you won't wake no more to this!

Flying raven child

Oh fiery eyes

Flying raven child

Oh fiery eyes

Oh to escape from all below

spread your wings... and go

like a raven child