Les Fleurs II Lyrics

Aria
High upon the silence
Primal
and as old as the earth
Feathered angels flit
And fill the morning air

In the realm of the dead
Sits death in a flowerbed

Crown daisies rise
like christ crowned in thorns -
forlorn
Through fresh cedar caskets
Of forests now replaced -
Banished
But for this trace

From Eden's warm embrace
Still -
Bearing boughs
And green Wreaths
the winged angels keep.
Their dreary elegy,
Like man from grace -
Escapes

From the earth
To the heavens
And hell below-
The wind blows wide

Open my eyes
Show me the way to
Life after suicide
Crown of life -
Crucify and rise

Paradise to gloom
Chrysanthemum Coronarium
to the Coroner's loom
Spinning, Chaos and Old Night -
For Lucifer and Man -
Not the crown of life presumed
Choosing left for right
Forever -

Crown of life
Crucify and rise
Flowers red and white
Guide us toward the light
But Flowers on a grave
Must grow through the night

On a Grey morning
Song birds sing
the mourning elegy
On wreaths -
Their doorstep threnody
A melody in rings
Is the Crown of thorns to be?

I guess heaven just forgot
An earthly thing like me.