Death Beloved
(dark symphonic/symphonic metal)

(spoken)
She stood at the threshold
her heart desiring to stay behind while her spirit went on
her mind already through the doorway...
she looked down then back up at the empty void before her...
“It is time for me to pass, to know what only the dead can know,”
she said, her voice soft and certain.
“Now do I embrace my beloved, Death.”

(sung)
How I long for your sweet kiss
To brush these long forsaken lips
O’ Death, Beloved, hold me in your arms tonight
Let me feel no more this pain
Let me never breathe again
O’ Death, my lover, let me sleep with you tonight

Dress me now in shadows long
Darkness come and sing your song
Let me close my eyes once more
forever

Still the heart beneath my breast
Lay me down into my rest
O’ Death, Beloved, hold me close tonight
Take the light within my eyes
Take away the tears I cry
O’ Death, sweet lover, sleep with me tonight

Dress me now in shadows long
Darkness come and sing your song
Let me close my eyes once more
forever

interlude

Wrap me in your cold embrace
Take me from this empty place
O’ Death, my love, please rescue me tonight
Silence fills my ears with song
No more tears now, Sorrow’s gone
O’ Death, Beloved, take me home tonight

Now I'm dressed in shadows long
Now I hear Darkness' low sweet song
Now I close my eyes once more...

Sophie's Opus
(symphonic goth metal)

(spoken)
She stepped forward, breath silenced in her breast
eyes closed to the worlds of the living
and the dead
but her heart won over her body and she stopped
foot raised then withdrawn as she stared
through bitter tears watching the world of the living
take shape around her once again
and Sophie wept...

(sung – secondary vocals in {})
[movement 1]
Sophie's Lament

Waiting for you
Alone like yesterday
Tears dried anew
Come to me and stay

I think of the words
{Speaking these words}
to say to your ears
{through my bitter tears}
loveless and broken
{I feel so broken}
for so many years
{by all of my fears}
Don't stay away
I need you today
[duet] to sing your song

Thinking of you
just like yesterday
Heartache anew
Hope fading away

I pray for your kiss
Bring life to my lips
I need you to love me
Before my soul rips
Don't turn from me
Don’t you see
[duet] I need your song
Sing your song

Broken inside I'm alone in the night
{Come to me}
Needing your love I'm afraid of the light
{Sing to me}

Waiting for you
at the end of day
Tears cried anew
Nothing left to pray

Lost in this pain
Blind from my crying
Can't find my way
Back from the dying
Cold in the dark
Staring at shadows
Empty inside
Except for my sorrows
Bring me your light
Free me tonight
[duet] With your song
Sing your song

[movement 2]
Sophie's Anguish
-sung in duet except [] (lead vocal) or {} (secondary vocal)

Staring at nothing, my thoughts all astray
{I wonder why I’m}
Dreaming of silence to take me away
{And hope to die I’m}
[Screaming at shadows that tear me apart
I cry for the sorrow that killed my heart
Dying in darkness alone in the night
Nothing left to fight]
Open my eyes, now look deep in my soul
{And see the pain}
Hold onto my hands, can you feel the cold
{Feel the strain}
[Clutching to nightmares that ravage my mind
Running from voices, I cry myself blind
Agony taunting me, hand on the blade
Undo what sorrow has made]
solo

Embrace of cold steel that makes me feel
{The pain again and again}
Watching as heaven fades away and then
{My scream will never end}
[I cried out in sorrow, I cried for your light]
{I hear the hush}
[I prayed for your mercy alone in the night]
{I feel the gush}
I’m slipping away into night without end
Wailing in anguish your love would not mend
Sinking in shadows dragging me down
[Just needed] your song
[You waited] too long
[Left me all] alone
[Now I’m gone]

[movement 3]
Instrumental
Sophie’s Death

(change up to instrumental with choir followed by lead riffs, drop too death march)
(change back to original score on piano with acoustic guitar accompaniment)

[movement 4]
Sophie’s Rebirth
(primary vocal, duet in [])

Pain drifting away
In light of a new day
No more forlorn
Sophie’s re[born]

copyright(c)2011 Kabryia Shethebat