The Periapt of Absence Lyrics

When the sky burns out the sun
A quiet stare masks the coming night
I roam untrodden halls in search of you
Whose whispers upon my heart do they write
With this periapt I hold to my chest
And a wounded stare behind my eye
I'll carve into the wilderness
The tale of you and I
A restless cry in a sea of aeons lost
A reflection in the dying light
Your spectral voice echoes to me
Through the falling autumn leaves
Severing the embittered veil
As my spirit wanes beneath
With these tears I've long beheld
The dream fades before my eyes
I'll carve into the walls of your heart
The words of thine
I'll follow you through the silence
Of the earth's decaying guise
May it evermore haunt the path we laid
This tale of you and I
Reaching to the starless void above
With idle hands that long again to find
A restless cry in a sea of aeons lost
A reflection in the dying light
Through pale meadows that without hope lie
Where time in solitude rests
I'll sail these seas of eternity
At the world's forgotten end
And though upon these broken shores
Wash the sorrows of my name
I'll love you forever - forever all the same