Achingly Beautiful

[Intro]
Night
That fateful raven alighted
On the cusp of my bewitchment

[Verse 1]
The beast in the clouds had swallowed the moon
A silverback thundering across the cosmos
In silence, now stars followed her tune
Winking from existence on the brink of chaos

[Pre-Chorus]
I penned an open sonnet
To the pearly gates ablaze
As I gazed upon this angel
Intoxicating everything

[Chorus 1]
The ball became her court
Her presence there electrifying
Candelabra fought
To tear themselves away

[Chorus 2]
She was a flame, divine
My pathic call of duty, irrefutable
Her eyes, they paralyzed me, froze the flow of time
A glimpse so achingly beautiful

[Bridge]
Fleeing from the manor
In the manner of this crime
We sheltered from the pelting
Helter-skelter of the skies
In the Greek gazebo
Speaking tragedian rhyme
Death would never settle
For one petal at a time

He would pluck the fucker!

[Chorus 1]
Lo, this malleus eve
Is heaving to the pulse of souls

[Chorus 2]
She was the game, sublime
A knight takes queen in ruby, indisputable
Then her eyes, they paralyzed me for a second time
A glimpse so achingly beautiful

[Bridge 1]
Drinking in her flora
This Aurora to the storm
I was burning in the furnace
Of a love that went to war
With ravenous desire
Fires lit the heavens for
Caressing in the rainfall
A less painful metaphor

For this hunger...

[Bridge 2]
On marbled tomb
Breathless, cocooned
A long, red dress shrouds
Like Ophelia, this Goddess
Mourning, then crawls
Black velvet palled
To pass fervent lips
Betwixt her deliciousness

Miserere Mei Diva
Forgive me forever, my bride
But a gift was delivered, however perverse
On that night you exquisitely died

Seraphina rise...
Arcane perfection
Her legend was etched
...To queen demon revised
A fell resurrection
Unparalleled in this world or next

Awaken, forsaken
By others soon taken as prey
Now you shall stand in the grandeur of love
A wonderland in which to play

[Guitar Solos: Marek Šmerda / Richard Shaw]

[Verse 2]
The beast in the clouds spat back the moon
And arrayed in a crown of glittering cobwebs
She slid to her feet like a prophet of doom
Born to immortal darkness
As mortality slipped away

[Chorus]
She was a flame, divine
My gnathic call of duty, irrefutable
Her eyes imparadised me with their wicked shine
A glimpse so achingly beautiful

Now she stirs the night
Just like the perfect Lorelei
As she spurs the dark horse
Foaming in my soul

[Outro]
Death is fleet, sweet, oft discreet
The beast in beauty's mask
Her skies, bediademed, complete
Now freed of days grown overcast