As darkness falls for the last time
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I awake from my apparently infinite sleep
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A silver full moon glows on this winter night
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Waning into oblivion
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... and I follow the northern storms
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that bring dusk upon the icy landscapes
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... and the storms lead me to majestic forests
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lakes and mountains I've never seen before
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Melancholy within seems eternal
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As I walk through the undergrowth
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Of these endless woods
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But then I see her sleeping under the dark trees
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- my beloved nocturnal queen
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And the children of the night watch over her
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Like the moon watches over the night
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As I get closer to her she awakens
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From her majestic sleep
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As she embraces me again
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I feel her magical attraction
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Together we walk the path of salvation
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And together with the wolves
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She sings her sweet serenades
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And with these, her majestic serenades
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She reaches for my black, bleeding heart
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Which only beats for her
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She kisses me with her lips of fire
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And this kiss covers my heart
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With a dismal shade of sadness
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And her hair of gold, waving in the wind
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Seems to me like the star-covered horizon
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Her sweet art is the key to my solitary heart
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And together we open the gate to infinity
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Into the dusk-impregnated land of dreams,
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where our spirits shall rest eternally
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I look into her eyes,
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knowing that this moment won't
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last eternally
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... and the sun never rises, for she is
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the forgotten flame
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engulfing my heart
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... and in the black wind her shadow
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fades away
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into the melancholy of the night
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And again my heart is touched
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by an endless solitary darkness
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Tales From Eternal Dusk
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Dark Fortress |