THEATRE OF TRAGEDY LYRICS Theatre Of Tragedy DEMO (1994 DEMO) 1. A Song By The Hearth 2. A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal 3. Dying - I Only Feel Apathy 4. Soliloquy 1. A Song By The Hearth "E'er and anon, thence hither - Yore of this glum gauntness. Ye eavesdroppest to my plea - Tarry not thy fealty! Stint this bereavement dear friend! - Wherefore dreegh me? Nay leech, nay witch, Doth but to cede my pall!" Harness gilded, steed mounted. Stern - I deem - a sire of conquer. Alack! - Solely bethought - Mayhap a song by the hearth?! Uncouth esquire parch'd my veins - Drat this sapling-drag! - Fray me! - And heed me! - Aye! - Be naught! - Should ye muster daggers in thy brow! "Fare well! - my kinsmen - I have drunk my last ale - Eat and drink well - O! - Behold my final skirmish." Crops be irk'd by draught - Kinsmen waylain by robbers - Kine of thine stampeding - Curse thee fore'ermore! Until then ne'er will I drink wine, Nor shall I feel the melodious taste of honey! 2. A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal [SING: Raymond F. Rohonyi & Liv Kristine Espenaes] Behold a jocund morn indeed! - Sun on high - birds in sky. Yonder the whist firth eathing, Fro where a gale erranteth. Ye beholdest but the shadow. That is a lie! Mayhap a tithe of trothplight - Lief I am not! I deem - e'er and anon! My words are but a twist. Tis a feigned lie through loathing, I say! To and fro, save hither, Is thy love. A dotard gaffer, I daresay... Not a loth! - But vying for my kinsmen! ...a sapling not! Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! A hamlet for a slothful vassal - Soothing ale for a parched sot. Hie to tell me What ye judgest as naught; I behold the shadow! Wherefore call me such names; Nay imp am I! Thou art my aghast hart - Grazing in the glade. E'er thou sayest aye! That is a lie! Thief of a plot! Lief I am not! Now go to thy tryst! My words are but a twist! Go, leave, totter! Fare well! - with joy I came, Until ye dwindlest. With rue I leave A morsel, nay more, Even the orb cannot For thy journey Help me melt the ice?! Hither and thither! 3. Dying - I Only Feel Apathy Now as I am to be bereaft of my troth I cry aloud my last words of lost hope. A violent gust of wind is my frame of mind; Huxes like moisture through pores. I am unwilling to forgive Him who depriev'd me of my life - Gloaming the sequence - A momentary view. Perishing intervals of rejoice - My supreme happiness is lost! Baleful emotions of fear - my body is the earth - The earth is now destined to be made forlorn - Forlorn from the enlivening energies. Am I not anylonger living? In mournful silence I suffer - In peace I now will rest. My hard-working hands Are now reposed. I close thee my beloved into my heart - Conceal thy memory in my inner sanctum. In my thoughts thou shalt forever be - As a dear and precious remembrance. I'm dethroned in the reign of entity - My tears descend like of abony - Life is the theatre of tragedy - Dying - I only feel apathy! 4. Soliloquy [Instrumental]