This is a live version of the song “Lycidias”
Recorded Saturday January 13th, 2001
at Never On Sundays in Cincinnati, OH

With Abominant, Estuary (of Calamity), and Garden of Shadows

This song was a staple of our live set for a few years, but was never actually captured properly in the studio. The line-up was Marquis Thomas (guitar/vocals), Leslie Anderson (keys), Brad Howard (bass), Ash Thomas (drums/vocals), and myself... Allen Scott (guitar). This is the first time anyone outside the band has heard this song... 

-Allen

The lyrics are both a poetic nod to the symbolism of a rose and orchids, and a nod to the elegiac poem by John Milton titled “Lycidas”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44733/lycidas


Lycidias
Lyrics by Allen Lee Scott
Music by Marquis Thomas, Allen Lee Scott, and TOTC

The blood moon rises in this garden of tears
As the final path of the sun fades
My love, she sways in a black sea
Her beauty disfigured in the stained glass

For all I ever knew, was in her dark eyes
For all I ever cared, caressed the hand of death

On that day she went away (I lost her)
All the flowers died (to silence)
The roses cried out in red (and sorrow)
The orchids wilted in sighs (forever)

Dry those doleful eyes on my heart
The sullen one shall cast away
The days of suffering will never end
Sorrow, it will never end

And all the stars bled (In her arms)
As the jester mocked her grace (the silence)
A somber and delicate fall (into sorrow)
To end the pain... (is forever)

Cry the red hued days and steal my heart
Weeping veins of warmth to pierce my tears
The season of pain, it will never end
Sadness, it will never end

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