Virgin Black Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Of Your Beauty Lyrics

Wearing robes of solemnity

 My senses stand erect

 This moment I am solitary

 As you watch me, eyeless

 Observe a brutal face

 I need silence, I need to be alone

 Look at me

 My bony fingers wrapped in rags

 I am pursued and love is withered

 My eyes will see, if my spirit lives

 The wind shouts its commands

 The earth has stopped my ears

 I dare not raise my hand

 To hold the stones around my throat

 I have heard of your beauty

 And would sacrifice my days

 These midnight wanderings

 And vain laments

 Pour upon me

 A sympathetic glance

 My splendour has gone

 you will find me face down

 let those days pass

 in sorrowful procession

 Among leafless groves

 May a leaf unfold

 I cry with rage

 To be remembered with pity

 Let the leaves unfold

 Where dead leaves have rotted

 Ask me what I suffer

 Years of fruitless clinging

 to enfeebled arms

 That wave of benevolent salute

 I have heard of your beauty

 Pursue me, beckon me

 to cast the stones from my throat

 in the earth's dark entrails

 My glazed eyes close forever

 My my eyes will see

 If my spirit lives