Skyclad - Single Phial lyrics

rate me

I have walked the earth so many times before your birth,

Today is only yesterday's tomorrow.

And as a Gardner in Eden it was i who sowed the seed then

I've come to reclaim this life you borrow.

Singing 'ring a ring o' rosies' for your final lullabye,

Have you any prayers to make before you wave your last goodbye ?

I bring 'a pocket full o' posies' - lay a wreath to ease my guilt,

As the light's go out forever not one drop of blood was spilt.

[Chorus:]

As yet unwritten history -

Once more i stride the lightning road

Identity a mystery -

My burden is Pandora's load.

Traversing endless centuries -

Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,

I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.

I'd have rather seen your face almost any other place

Still here we meet - always the way in this profession

And as i gaze into your eyes - i see the glimer within dies,

From ther moment i first make my dark confession.

How could i swear i would be there for you, until your dying day,

Certain in the knowledge that it's not that far away?

So you leave me sitting here bewildered as a new dead ghost,

While i try to justify destroying that which i love most.

As yet unwritten history -

Once more i stride the lightning road

Identity a mystery -

My burden is Pandora's load.

Traversing endless centuries -

Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,

I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.

The dark millenium is ending - final daze of the decayed

And a reign of tears is falling - it's the judgement eve parade.

Though I wash my hands a thousand times - still the guilt remains,

She stole my heart - I took her life ...

(And yet i never knew her name).

As yet unwritten history -

Once more i stride the lightning road

Identity a mystery -

My burden is Pandora's load.

Traversing endless centuries -

Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,

I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.

Out with a whimper - not with a bang.

And they all gathered round while the church bell rang.

Singing 'bring out your dead' they 'll stretch for miles,

To be bourne to their graves in single files.

[Chorus:]

As yet unwritten history -

Once more i stride the lightning road

Identity a mystery -

My burden is Pandora's load.

Traversing endless centuries -

Disguised behind Death's lipless smile,

I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial.