The Melancholy Spirit-Agalloch

[ti:The Melancholy Spirit] [ar:Agalloch] [al:Pale Folklore] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Melancholy Spirit - Agalloch [05:22.76]It was in this haunted place under a moonless cloak of ebony [05:31.06]I was drawn to the glow of a young spiritess weeping in the woods [05:39.83] [05:54.70]The blackest ravens and ice-veiled boughs [05:59.94]Have spoken of you goddess of these bleak woods [06:04.12]I yearn for your embrace spiritess of the melancholia [06:12.05]Show me again your sweet face [06:16.48]Enchant me with your rich cinder burnt ether [06:20.60]Lure me into your arms and bless unto me eternal death [06:26.59] [07:25.44]She had spoken to the dawn [07:30.49] [07:31.55]Her words wisped in tongues of the wind [07:38.48] [07:50.35]And then silence [07:51.60] [07:54.16]Pale clouds betrothed the dawn [07:58.59]Black rain fell [08:01.14] [08:02.59]The birds wore masks [08:06.51]The haunting stain of her woe [08:10.63]Had burned itself into the oak [08:14.48]Night had gone [08:18.16]Bereaved I was torn for her [08:22.46]One last time I witnessed her beauty in the distance [08:29.69]The arms of the trees tore at her morbid gown swaying in the loathsome winter [08:38.63]Breeze [08:39.32]She faded before my eyes [08:43.37]Since that day a thousand veiled birds have taken flight [08:47.74]And the melancholy rain still pours forever on