Lovesick for Mina

Album: Thornography (2006)
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  • One might see in Mina
    My disease
    But it is She who has infected me
    For all eternity...

    As the sun slips the tearaway stars
    Into the scented scheme of night
    I kissed her mouth like a dark red rose
    Set upon a marbled dream of white
    So pure of thought like a Vestal statue
    Jewelled with a God-lent grace
    I was close to coming when She bid adieu
    Fuelled by the heartache rent upon her face there

    Oh Mina, obscener
    Thoughts obsess my days
    Oh Mina, obscener
    Thoughts possess me
    That I must now obey

    They say the darkest hour
    Is that before the dawn
    When nothing in one's power
    Can dissipate the great forlorn
    Shadows of fire that haunt me
    Like risen whispers of her name
    For dawn is a dusk
    Wherein needs must
    Erupt from the grave, aflame

    Written in the dead of night
    And riding on the burning wind
    Smitten by her read delight
    My words alight like leaves of sin

    Stepping through a mirror
    The princess of the emerald glass
    Brought me one step nearer
    Love's infernal past...

    They say Hell hath no furies
    Like a woman scorned by life
    When the Heavenly Judge and juries
    Participate to chain this wife
    With forced virtues, Her secret needs
    Drew on my foreign blood
    On warm wet nights, with storm-wracked bites
    I gave her Eden after the flood

    Written in the dead of night
    And riding on the burning wind
    Smitten by her red delight
    My words alight like leaves of sin

    Verona, Marishka, Aleera
    Brides of old and goddesses all
    Forgive my wishes to be always near her
    Forever or whenever seas recall

    This Aphrodite from my embrace
    For as Mars (whom her lips placate)
    I tore these shores with wars of hatred
    Before our Paris set his fate
    In Helen, one might find mistake
    In winning tragedy
    For all eternity...

    I am still lovesick for Mina
    I am still so lovesick for her
    Writer/s: CHARLES HEDGER, DANIEL LLOYD DAVEY, DAVE PYBUS, PAUL JAMES ALLENDER
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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