I know I have been created by Nature
To drive with my voice ships to the shore.
I know I have come to the conclusion:
My life is devoted to death and destruction and loss - Nothing more.
Mockingly, mockingly I sing my lullaby,
Driving them mad and getting them caught;
Soothingly, soothingly I tell them my good-bye
Like I`ve been taught - like I`ve been taught.
Moments of beauty, moments of bitterness
Mix in my mem`ry as long as I live:
My love is tainted, and cursed is my tenderness;
Loss and illusion and longing is all that I give.
I broke the hourglass;
I broke these eyes that stare emptily.
My love lies broken,
He`s paid the prize ... and the song of the waves
Calls me steadily, easily, teasingly, tearingly,
seethingly, soothingly, searingly, broodingly ...
A body of beauty, a voice of seduction.
It seems I can take all I need...
But fulfilling your longing imparts your destruction:
Am I to succeed? Am I to succeed?!
Involuntarily puppet and prodigy:
Here is temptation, dreadful and sweet!
I could put an end to your hopes and affections,
Then you'd live and I'd live and no one must suffer but me.
I broke the hourglass,
I broke these eyes that stare emptily.
My love lies broken:
He`s paid the price;
He`s paid the price of the sea.
Crystal, Winter 2000
For Nynajelle