[Verse 1]
In the still of the night, shadows start to sway,
Whispers in the dark, guiding me astray.
Echoes of the past, linger in the air,
Lost in a dream, a world beyond compare.

[Chorus 1]
Ooh, the moonlight fades away,
In the twilight gray.
Ooh, I'm caught in a spectral embrace,
In this haunted place.

[Verse 2]
Footsteps on the floor, a distant lullaby,
Figures in the mist, under a ghostly sky.
Time stands still, in this forgotten hall,
Calling out my name, through the silent call.

[Chorus 2]
Ooh, the moonlight fades away,
In this twilight gray.
Ooh, I'm caught in a spectral embrace,
In this haunted place.

[Bridge]
A dance with shadows, a waltz with the night,
Bound by the secrets, hidden from the light.
The past and present, entwined as one,
In this spectral journey, we cannot outrun.

[Outro]
When the night whispers my name,
In the haunting frame.
Ooh, forever lost in time's embrace,
In this ghostly space.
In this ghostly space,
In this ghostly space,
Ghostly Space...

Shadows

[Intro]
I will walk unscathed through musket fire.
No ploughman's blade will cut me down.
No cutlass pull will mark my face.

[Chorus 1]
And you will be my ain true love.
And you will be my ain true love.

[Verse 1]
And as I walk through death's dark veil,
The cannon's thunder cannot prevail.
And those who hunt me down will fail.

[Chorus 2]
And you will be my ain true love.
And you will be my ain true love.

[Bridge]
Asleep inside the cannon's mouth,
The captain cries, "here comes the rout. "
They will seek to find me north and south,
I have gone to find my ain true love.

[Outro]
The field is cut and bleeds too red.
The cannon balls fly round my head.
The infirm'ry man may count me dead.
When I have gone to find my ain true love.
I have gone to find my ain true love.
Ain' true...
The field is cut and bleeds too red.
The cannon balls fly round my head.
The infirm'ry man may count me dead.
Forever dead with my ain true love...

1865

[Intro]
The echoes of the gunshots, ringing through the halls.
A world that once ignored him, now shattered by his calls.
Smiles frozen with fright, as frenzy takes its hold.
In the fire of his fury, His story unfolds.

[Chorus 1]
Broken glass, splintered dreams, the destruction of the storm.
In this realm of violence, a villain takes its form...
Innocence dissolves to ashes, as flames start to creep.
In the aftermath of madness, there's nothing left to keep...

[Verse 1]
The force of power surging, a fleeting sense of control.
In the ghosts he created, There is only his fractured soul...
Sirens wail in the distance, a reckoning draws near.
Amidst the fallen echoes, the consequences clear...

[Chorus 2]
Thoughts take hold, gnarled branches.
His purgatory, no solace to be found...
Nightmares haunt his dreams, shadows in the night.
In the clarity after violence, He just lost the will to fight...

[Bridge]
The world pauses still around him, a lonely, hollow place.
In the aftermath of his cruel act, He is left to face his fate...
Regret and desperation, a heavy, crushing weight.
His turmoil within, failed to abate...
He ponders it is too late...

[Verse 2]
Reflections of the consequence, little lives rearranged.
A deafening void, where innocence was estranged...
In seeking out his vengeance, He carved a scar of pain.
In the wreckage of his choices, nothing pure remains...

[Chorus 3]
Shattered glass, splintered dreams, soft cries of despair.
In this realm of twilight, he has lost sight...
Hope dissolved to shadows, lost in the endless night.
In the prelude of darkness, He has embraced the fight!

[Outro]
If only he saw redemption, his chance to turn around.
But in his world of madness, no God can be found...
On his battlefield, the loss is profound.
His story without closure, a soul forever
bound....

[Epilogue]
Dear Reader,
Oh, you the hate you must feel.
My nightmare has ended while yours is real.

[Verse 1]
I now poison you with what was cruelly delivered.
Infect you all with the black
disease that made me quiver.

[Pre-Chorus]
This will not pass; trust me I know.
For you are guilty of the seeds that you sow.
Revenge will take plant; a cancerous tree will grow.

[Chorus]
You will have to come to terms as have I.
That you must transfer the weight of its bough.
Now you will read the bargain you dealt.
Feel my pitch night, and my skull you have scalped.

[Outro]
There is no question as to why I stole three.
They were my penance, which you signed by the highest decree.

Michael

[Intro]
There you are, a man so close.

You must know what awaits you?

Or have you shuttered your windows?

Long ago, you lost sight of its truth.

Because your tar has marred your soul.

It now drowns you, which is beyond my control.

There you are, not ready to live or to die.

Drawn to the shine of the Magpie.

[Break]


[Verse 1]
Here I swoon in night's opaque embrace.
  
A corpse’s shadow with a man’s face.  

My existence in Your hands.  

This life beyond what I understand.  

The hive of choices, the queen of regret.
  
The swarm stings, poison I can’t forget.

[Chorus 1]
He speaks with a firm, steady tone.

You've wandered too far from seeds I have sown.

Choices made, now consequences bear.

Look around, feel the weight you wear.

[Verse 2] 
Always dismissed the signs, turned askew.
 
Chased dragons through the fire they blew.  

Your soul howls as you burn its plight.

Blinded by your self-made night.  

[Break]

[Chorus 2]
What a powerful drug, denial.

However, sentences will be upheld after the trial.

Is there a moment when conscience calls?

Or is its breath silenced as you fall?


[Verse 3]  
I hear you, but the knife cuts deep. 

The blood continues to seep.  

I’ve sought reprieve from its crimson shade.

Yearning for a time before cathedrals were made.  

Among the scattered ruins, my life untold.
 
Searching for warmth in the night's cold.

[Chorus 3]
He replies with fervent decree.  

That heart’s ensnared by its own plea.  

All manner of light is concealed. 

You will never know what it could reveal.  

[Bridge] 
In the chasm between hope and his despair.

Two voices clash in the electric air.  

A fury of need, entwined and fraught.

As his end beckons to be caught.

[Verse 4]
Here am I, just a simple man

A body of blood, sinew and organs.

I am not special or deserving.

My time has been hasty and self-serving.

But I am ready to lift the fog.

Please allow me to write my epilogue.

[Outro]
There was no answer as he lay still.

But he felt warmth where there was a 
chill.

He dared not open his eyes.

But felt his tears as they baptized.

Sins would always beckon.

But He knew what they threatened.



swansong

2nd version of ''KissMeintheWind''

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
“Kiss me in the wind,” she said.
Where the rails cry rust and the sky goes dead.
Your hands still held my breath in knots,
But time’s a thief that never rots.

[Verse 2]
Your silhouette, a half-drawn hymn,
Unfinished psalm in a requiem.
You walked through steam like you were smoke,
Already gone before you broke.
[Break]

[Pre-Chorus]
I tied your name to chimney soot,
Wrote you in fog with trembling foot.
But fog forgets, and ink grows thin,
Still, soft I spoke:
‘’Kiss me in the wind.’’

[Chorus]
Kiss me where the blackbirds feed,
Where letters drown in sodden reed.
Where bullet lullabies begin,
And silence drinks the voices in.

[Break]

[Verse 3]
You rotted slowly in my prayers,
Each word a splintered strand of hair.
I wore your echo in my chest,
But ghosts make poor and sleepless guests.

[Break]

[Verse4]
The clock unwound its copper veins,
I stitched your face in windowpanes.
But glass forgets, and winters spin,
And I still whispered,
Kiss me in the wind.

Pre-Chorus
I kissed the gun beneath my bed,
Imagining your mouth instead.
But gunmetal is not your skin,
It never learned to pull me in.

[Break]

[Chorus]
Kiss me where the blackbirds feed,
Where dreams decay and angels bleed.
Where prayers are made of rusted tin.
Kiss me, kiss me in the wind.

[Bridge]
They sent no bones, no ring, no thread.
Just silence dressed in army red.
You are a nameless smear on stone,
The war devours its own.

[Verse 5]
I whispered once to muddy skies,
And heard you sob between the flies.
Or maybe that was me again,
Pretending ghosts remember when.

[Epilogue]
They never called my name aloud…
Just numbered tags and broken vows.
I dreamed of her with dirt in lungs,
A song half-screamed and never sung.
I tried to write, forgot the words.
The shelling drowned the flight of birds.
I held her face inside my hand…
But all things loose what they command.

[Outro]
She asked for wind… I gave her dust.
My mouth was ash, my bones were rust.
If I could kiss, just once again,
But men like me are never when.

[Outro]
Kiss me…
in the wind…
and I'll forget
how war begins.

intheWind

the dying year

[Intro]
Once a child, now the keeper of children…
who now carry the fire that never dared to dim.

[Break]

[Verse 1]
You were green and blooming, a butterfly in the wind,
I thought you my daughter, my marrow, my kin.
There were shadows that followed, but they were snared by our thread,
in their place visions of a home where the innocent could be fed.

[Break]

[Pre-Chorus]
But the years unspooled, and the silence broke,
from your hands, the future spoke.

[Chorus 1]
And now the children bloom in your care,
branches we’ve watered, a garden you gladly share.
Once a girl with brights eyes, now a mother’s hand,
in union to cradle together what life has planned.

[Break]
Hmmmhmmm…
Hmmmhmmm…

[Verse 2]
Your arms became havens, your voice a shield,
their laughter, the harvest our labor revealed.
I see them in daylight, in sleep-softened eyes,
your love is the root where their whole world lies.

[Break]

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I thought I was guardian, but learned in time,
your strength eclipsed this watchtower of mine.

[Chorus 2]
And now the children bloom in your flame,
their laughter a hymn that carries your name.
Once my borrowed daughter, now my guide,
their guardian, forever aligned.

[Break]
Ahhhhahhhh…
Ahhhhahhh…

[Bridge]
You raised them like lanterns in corridors dim,
teaching them mercy, to stand, not to bend.
I see them, your echoes, your fierce design,
they carry your fire… as well as mine.

[Break]
Ooooohhhh…
Ooooohhohhh…

[Final Chorus]
And now the children rise, however still small,
the sum of your courage, the proof of it all.
You are the sister, a bond shared by blood, 
we sheltered the light… and the light shelters us within.

[Break]
Ahhhhahhhh…

[Outro]
The light we carried… now carries me…

[Outro]
Ahhhhhhhhahhh….
Hmmmmhmmm...


Keeper of Light

2nd Version of ''Michael''...

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
The echoes of the gunshots, 
ringing through the halls.
A world that once ignored him, 
now shattered by his calls.
Smiles frozen with fright, 
as frenzy takes its hold.
In the fire of his fury, His story unfolds....

[Break]

[Pre-Chorus]
Broken glass, splintered dreams, 
the destruction of the storm.
In this realm of violence,
 a villain takes its form...

[Chorus 1]
Innocence dissolves to ashes,
 as flames start to creep.
In the aftermath of madness, 
there's nothing left to keep...

[Break]
Ahhhhhhhahhhh...
Hmmmhmmmm...

[Verse 2]
The force of power surging,
 a fleeting sense of control.
In the ghosts he created, 
there is only his fractured soul...

[Pre-Chorus]
Sirens wail in the distance,
 a reckoning draws near.
Amidst the fallen echoes, 
the consequences clear...

[Break]
Ahhhhhhhahhhh...
Hmmmhmmmm...

[Chorus 2]
Thoughts take hold, gnarled branches.
His purgatory, no solace to be found...
Nightmares haunt his dreams, 
shadows in the night.
In the clarity after violence, 
He just lost the will to fight...

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
The world pauses still around him, 
a lonely, hollow place.
In the aftermath of his cruel act, 
He is left to face his fate...
Regret and desperation, 
a heavy, crushing weight.
His turmoil within failed to abate...
He ponders it is too late...

[Break]
Ahhhhhhhahhhh...

[Verse 3]
Hmmmhmmmm...
Reflections of the consequence,
 little lives rearranged.
A deafening void, 
where innocence was estranged...
In seeking out his vengeance, 
He carved a scar of pain.
In the wreckage of his choices, 
nothing pure remains...

[Break]

[Chorus 3]
Shattered glass, splintered dreams,
 soft cries of despair.
In this realm of twilight, he has lost sight...
Hope dissolved to shadows, 
lost in the endless night.
In the prelude of darkness, 
He has embraced the fight!

[Break]

[Outro]
If only he saw redemption, 
his chance to turn around.
But in his world of madness, 
no God can be found...
On his battlefield, the loss is profound.
His story without closure,
 a soul forever
bound....

[Instrumental Break]

[Epilogue]
Dear Reader,
Oh, you the hate you must feel.
My nightmare has ended while yours is real.

[Verse 1]
I now poison you with what was cruelly delivered.
Infect you all with the black
disease that made me quiver.

[Pre-Chorus]
This will not pass; trust me I know.
For you are guilty of the seeds that you sow.
Revenge will take plant; a cancerous tree will grow.

[Chorus]
You will have to come to terms as have I.
That you must transfer the weight of its bough.
Now you will read the bargain you dealt.
Feel my pitch night, and my skull you have scalped.

[Outro]
There is no question as to why I stole three.
They were my penance, 
which you signed by the highest decree

The Red Plague

[Intro]


[Verse 1]
In the chasm where,

Devourer's all sound,

She lost her way.

Her raven feathers like phantoms bound.

In a crypt where the world is played.


[Chorus]
Her past, a monument of facade.

A fortress thrown with heavy weight.

So sweet the scent of sin's bouquet.

They scar her skin with restless whips.

Her bloody branding, retribution's decree.


[Break]


[Verse 4]
Her eyes remain closed,

Her eyes remain closed,

Shielded from judgment's decree.

Her conscience, her disguise of thorn-laden vines.

In chaos's vice, she bleeds at the seams.


[Instrumental]


[Bridge]
Her conscience, her disguise of thorn-laden vines.

In chaos's vice, she bleeds at the seams.

Fugitive soul where vice is entwined.

There will be no act to redeem,

 prison is her only circumstance.

She is the black widow in a web she has weaved


[Break]


[Verse 5]
And where she's thrown, she's dying from its strands.

Past deceit, unfurling at the seams.

An actress on a stage where lies are spread.

Her script inscribed in the tar of her soul.


[Break]


[Verse 6]
In obvious past, her secrets remain.

A fugitive throne, the law's cruel quest.

This is the land where the takers reign.

Where crimes are violent without a care.


[Break]


[Outro]
In this life, she will not break her home.

The tattered enchantress will be embraced.

In the meaning of great and old,

He has written her end, 

ensnared her in a play.



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