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A Dirge

by DrScythe

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based on the poem "A Dirge" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Death and a dirge at midnight;
Yet never a soul in the house
Heard anything more than the throb and beat
Of a beautiful waltz of Strauss.


verse 1+2
Floating and whirling together,
Into the beautiful night,
How little you dreamed of the ghastly thing
I was hiding away from your sight.

Meeting your dark eyes' splendour,
Feeling your warm, sweet breath,
How could you know that my passionate heart
Had died a horrible death?

chorus
Dead, dead, dead, and staring,
With a ghastly smile on its face;
But the world saw only laughing eyes
And roses, and billows of lace.

verse 3
Died in its fever and fervour,
Died in its beautiful bloom;
And that waltz of Strauss was a funeral dirge,
Leading the way to the tomb.

break
But you held my hand at parting,
And I smiled back a gay good night;
And you never knew of the ghastly corpse
I was hiding away from your sight.


Yet whenever I hear the Danube -
Under its pulsing strain,
I catch the wail of the funeral dirge,
And my heart dies over again.

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released June 4, 2017
everything was done by myself

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DrScythe Willich, Germany

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The overall genre is Rock/Metal with flavors – synths, violins or even harpsichords.

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