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The Lantern Lyrics
We, on our present life
Knew that the stars were right
That if you are the first to go
You'll leave a sign to let me kno
Tell me so
Please, carry the Lantern lights
You crossed the sea of night
Free from the spell of fright
Your cloak it is a spirit shroud
You'll wake me in my sleeping hours
Like a cloud
So, please, carry the Lantern high
Me, in my sorry plight
You waiting ev'ry night
My face it turns a deathly pale
You're talking to me, through your veil
I hear you wail
So, please carry the Lantern light
The servants sleep
The door's are barred
You hear the stopping of my heart-we never part
So, please carry the Lantern high
Knew that the stars were right
That if you are the first to go
You'll leave a sign to let me kno
Tell me so
Please, carry the Lantern lights
Free from the spell of fright
Your cloak it is a spirit shroud
You'll wake me in my sleeping hours
Like a cloud
So, please, carry the Lantern high
You waiting ev'ry night
My face it turns a deathly pale
You're talking to me, through your veil
I hear you wail
So, please carry the Lantern light
The door's are barred
You hear the stopping of my heart-we never part
So, please carry the Lantern high
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This song tells of lovers -- a love written in the stars. She's passed on, and he beckons her return when it's his time to die, so that he can die not alone but with her at his side, and they can be together into eternity as destiny would wish it. The lantern is a metaphor for their love.
@purpletoad Works for homosexual lovers as well as for heterosexuals.
@purpletoad Works for homosexual lovers as well as for heterosexuals.
I don't think these lyrics are correct.
Sounds like it could easily been on beggar's
in the end he commits suicide, right?