You Were But A Ghost In My Arms-Agalloch

[ti:You Were But A Ghost In My Arms] [ar:Agalloch] [al:The Mantle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Were But A Ghost In My Arms - Agalloch [00:48.88]Like snowfall you cry a silent storm [00:54.25] [00:58.99]Your tears paint rivers on this oaken wall [01:07.04] [01:11.28]Amber nectar misery ichor [01:16.65] [01:17.96] cascading in streams of hallowed form [01:25.26] [01:27.63]For each stain a forsaken shadow [01:33.44] [01:40.55]You are the lugubrious spirit [01:43.67] [01:45.73]Etched in the oak of wonder [01:50.47]You are the sullen voice and silent storm [01:57.02] [02:16.24]Each night I lay [02:17.68]Awakened by her shivering silent voice [02:20.68]From the shapes in the corridor walls [02:24.98]It pierces the solitude like that of a distant scream [02:29.47]In the pitch-black forest of my delusion [02:33.71] [02:44.56]With each passing day a deeper grave [02:50.43] [02:53.80]"Why did you leave me to die " [02:58.55]"Why did you abandon me " [03:04.03]"Why did you walk away and leave me bitterly yearning " [03:11.21] [03:14.14]Her haunting contorted despair was etched into the wood's grain [03:21.78] [03:28.64]Though fire rages within me no fire burns fiercer than her desire [03:37.44] [03:43.43]The shape whispers my name [03:48.30] [06:12.41]I damn this oak [06:16.15]I damn her sorrow [06:20.74]I damn these oaken corridors [06:25.49]That bear the ghosts of those I've thrown away [06:29.60] [06:32.41]Though tempted I am to caress her texture divine [06:35.59]And taste her pain sweet sweet like brandy wine; [06:41.09]I must burn these halls these corridors [06:44.64]And silence her shrill tormenting voice [06:47.94] [06:49.69] forever [06:50.54] [07:18.60]Like snowfall you cried a silent storm [07:25.47] [07:28.96]No tears stain this dust in my hands [07:36.69] [07:40.75]But from this ashen gray her voice still [07:49.11]Whispers my name [07:50.67] [08:10.82]You were the lugubrious spirit [08:13.07] [08:15.75]Who haunted the oak of wonder [08:19.68] [08:20.43]You were the geist that warned this frozen silent storm [08:25.08] [08:29.83]You were but a ghost in my arms