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The Visitation Lyrics
Young girl with roses in her eyes
Sits on a bed of white sheets
The lights are off the gloom begins
To thicken as she waits
She's waiting alone in the dark (waiting)
Where is the sun and the flowered park (we're always waiting)
Why do they always meet in shadow
Young girl with roses in her eyes (I'm as close as your breathing)
Waits for the phosphorescent mouth (but you can't hear me)
It's blue and comes upon her neck
In whispers like dry grass
She's waiting for her lover's voice (I tried to talk to you)
The sun is gone the music plays (but you wouldn't listen)
From the sheet corner and she cries
Young girl with roses in her eyes
Hugs close the dark and cries
The words she hears are weak
Her lover's not asleep he's dead
She feels his breathing by her side
He reaches across the border
Stretching his boneless hand towards her
(SPOKEN)
Death is silent painless
I didn't know what happened
I was suddenly standing above my body
while you looked on
too much in shock for tears
I tried to speak
but couldn't
I tried to talk to you
but you wouldn't listen
and now we meet
like guilty lovers in the dark
for such a hopeless moment
and even as we meet I feel you slipping from me
and I go back
to my darkness
The girl with roses in her eyes (my spirit lingers after you like a faint stream of clouds)
Speaks with her lover who is here (my mouth hovers about you)
Like vines their voices intertwine (forever)
It is all they have (I see you waiting for me summoning up the power as the light dies)
She struggles to hold him back (the light we loved)
He clutches but the power is gone
And the pillow turns to chalk
(SPOKEN)
I tried to speak but couldn't
and now we meet like guilty lovers in the dark for such a hopeless moment
and even as we meet I feel you slipping from me
and I go back to my darkness
Sits on a bed of white sheets
The lights are off the gloom begins
To thicken as she waits
Where is the sun and the flowered park (we're always waiting)
Why do they always meet in shadow
Waits for the phosphorescent mouth (but you can't hear me)
It's blue and comes upon her neck
In whispers like dry grass
She's waiting for her lover's voice (I tried to talk to you)
The sun is gone the music plays (but you wouldn't listen)
From the sheet corner and she cries
Hugs close the dark and cries
The words she hears are weak
Her lover's not asleep he's dead
She feels his breathing by her side
He reaches across the border
Stretching his boneless hand towards her
(SPOKEN)
Death is silent painless
I didn't know what happened
I was suddenly standing above my body
while you looked on
too much in shock for tears
I tried to speak
but couldn't
I tried to talk to you
but you wouldn't listen
and now we meet
like guilty lovers in the dark
for such a hopeless moment
and even as we meet I feel you slipping from me
and I go back
to my darkness
Speaks with her lover who is here (my mouth hovers about you)
Like vines their voices intertwine (forever)
It is all they have (I see you waiting for me summoning up the power as the light dies)
She struggles to hold him back (the light we loved)
He clutches but the power is gone
And the pillow turns to chalk
I tried to speak but couldn't
and now we meet like guilty lovers in the dark for such a hopeless moment
and even as we meet I feel you slipping from me
and I go back to my darkness
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I presume this song speaks for itself. A very obvious heartbreaking outcry of pain, a story of a sudden tragic death (Car accident) and thus - an ending not only of a life, but also a relationship between a young couple, presented in a theatrical play manner, Where we have a narrator describing the young girl sitting on the white covered bed waiting to meet her dead spouse in the shadows... And then we start understanding the story as it is told from the deceased husband side, Describing how he finds himself in a post mortal status of being (Death is silent painless I didn't know what happened), trying hopelessly and desperately to reach out to his shocked and grief-struck wife, understanding that this "meeting in the shadows" is perhaps an inevitable farewell...
I find this song extremely haunting, mesmerizing and beautiful. It stands out from the rest of the album (Which in itself is a very extraordinary collection of music that was created way ahead of it's time), not only in the dark and grim tone, but also structure-wise: It is really a play melted into a musical formation, mixing song, spoken parts, dramatization (Automobile Tyre screeching, a lady screaming), and sound effects to add up to this dark supernatural eerie atmosphere.
An excellent piece of music not enough people know.