Poem For Byzantium Lyrics

Lyric discussion by JohnDiFool2 

Cover art for Poem For Byzantium lyrics by Delerium

This album was the soundtrack for a trip I took to South Africa 11 years ago-to meet a women whom I had met online.

Long story short, our romance as such evaporated into the illusion it always was, and I continued my trip alone after about a week. This song was playing as I was driving into the entrance to St. Lucia Bay, at which point I realized that it was perfectly describing my situation!

"I ran away, to a room here on the bay"

"Through the darkness I would walk in the streets"

[The town was very beautiful at nighttime I should add]

"Looking out to a different sky will disengage me"

[This trip was my first chance to see the sights of the southern sky, such as the Southern Cross]

"I do not seek and do not intend to find A calmer ocean or a sun that'll never be mine" [Error above in that last phrase]

[I took my first swim ever in the Indian Ocean that weekend, and on top of that there was a partial solar eclipse that was not visible from North America]

Pretty freaky, huh?

Memory