Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.
This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive.
She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end.
So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started.
There is a huge difference between a singer who simply belts out a song that is on a page in front of them, and someone who can convey an entire experience with their voice. Telling not just a story with words, but taking you inside it and making you feel like you are there, with their interpretation.
I was only forgiven by the moonlight
Covertly staring at the shiny down on your face
In your dreams as you continue to sleep
I want you to wait for me in a black dress
Ah, into your neck I deeply pierce my love
Ah mingling with my blood, let us frolic in the darkness
The bride of the moonlit night
Turn off the moon because the angels are watching
Let's decorate with flowers, beautiful flowers
Ah, and one more, beside your eyelid...
Ah, and one more, on the sill of your death...
The bride of the dark night
Ah, beautiful like this, my song of prayer as I kneel
Ah, rotting away before we know it; disappearing and leaving nothing behind, Romance.
Ah and the final scene is beginning now
Ah your knife eats into my chest
Deeply, like this... ah, deeply
Ah, beautiful like this, my song of prayer as I kneel
Ah, tonight also, I want blood; walking in darkness, melting into darkness
Ah, beautiful like this, my song of prayer as I kneel
Ah, rotting away before we know it; disappearing and leaving nothing behind
Covertly staring at the shiny down on your face
In your dreams as you continue to sleep
I want you to wait for me in a black dress
Ah, into your neck I deeply pierce my love
Ah mingling with my blood, let us frolic in the darkness
The bride of the moonlit night
Turn off the moon because the angels are watching
Let's decorate with flowers, beautiful flowers
Ah, and one more, beside your eyelid...
Ah, and one more, on the sill of your death...
The bride of the dark night
Ah, beautiful like this, my song of prayer as I kneel
Ah, rotting away before we know it; disappearing and leaving nothing behind, Romance.
Ah and the final scene is beginning now
Ah your knife eats into my chest
Deeply, like this... ah, deeply
Ah, beautiful like this, my song of prayer as I kneel
Ah, tonight also, I want blood; walking in darkness, melting into darkness
Ah, beautiful like this, my song of prayer as I kneel
Ah, rotting away before we know it; disappearing and leaving nothing behind
Lyrics submitted by dokuhime
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