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Even beauty must die: |
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That which subdues both gods and mortals |
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Leaves the steely breast of the stygian Zeus untouched |
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As I wake I hear these words in my mind |
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Their meaning is one that I cannot find |
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My head it pounds with a tempered thought |
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Did my eyes betray that which I sought? |
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What was his gift for I can't ignore |
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The question posed now as before |
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Once and once only did love soften the lords of the shadow |
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Then, on the very threshold, he sternly revoked his gift |
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What was his gift for I can't ignore |
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The question posed now as before |
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I can't begin to realise |
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That I'm the one to which they empathise |
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Aphrodite herself has no power |
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To assuage the hurt of her lover |
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His tender flesh ripped by the cruel boar |
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Nor can the godlike hero be saved, deathless mother |
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At the Scaean gate when, falling, he achieves his date |
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She rises out of the sea |
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With all the daughters of Nereus |
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And the mourning begins for her glorious son |
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All good things must come to pas, too soon |
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Perfection dies |
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Trusting vanity, fading |
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Perfection dies |
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Look back, the mirror shows, Narsus |
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Perfection dies |
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Grieving for what I lost, slowly |
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Perfection dies |
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See! Where the gods are weeping |
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And the goddesses, all of them |
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Weeping that beauty passes |
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Perfection will always die |
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Good, a lament in the mouths of loved ones |
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What is common goes to Orcus unsung |
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And the mourning begins for her glorious son... |
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All good things must come to pas, too soon |
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Perfection dies |
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Trusting vanity, fading |
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Perfection dies |
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Look back, the mirror shows, Narsus |
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Perfection dies |
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Grieving for what I lost, slowly |
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Perfection dies |
