Cheerful Dirge letra

Hap mirthfulness! - oh joy of grand riddance;
Undress me my hauberk! - the wyvern hath errant'd.

Ire of yore - bard of e'eryears -
I deem the brood hath wan'd - foe'ermore?!

Fro the chasm of the bosom, I hand back.
Hark! My dove - henceforth I bulwark thee! -
Feathers of swans in my pillow - I cede my heart.
Make haste! - I pray - respond my plea!

Lo! - a sire of great awe - a knight of many battles!

...And of kinsmen weeping for the slain!
Please! - heed my words;
In thy sorrow I will kiss thy tears -
In the bliss I will take thee by thy hand -
The sapor of grapes thou shalt savor -
And harken the nightingale sing oh so blithely!

On his knees... A plea to harvest roses;
No heed for the thorns yon count!
Wherefore vow me?
Wherefor this gildéd proffer?
Wherefore not pay court to a maid more fair? -
Morn of a joyous day! Flower 'twixt weed!
Fertile desert! Cheerful dirge!
Misery me not! - man nor beast; envy me;
Lest 'tis an act of wont!
Many are the drapes that my past bury -
Ineffable feeling indulgeth in battles!

Tisn't what thou vambrace'st thy words with!!;
I bethink dotingly only thy weal -
Therein abdiding with thee
Is for me the grandest boon!

Forgive me for deeming thee direfully -
Yet I was a triffle daunt'd.

Theatre of Tragedy - Letras

• A Distance There Is
• A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal
• A Nine Days Wonder
• A Rose For The Dead
• A Song by the Hearth?!
• And When He Falleth
• And When He Falleth (Remix)
• Angélique
• Aoede
• Aoede
• As The Shadows Dance
• Ashes and Dreams
• Astray
• Automatic Lover
• Bacchante
• Beauty Of Deconstruction
• Begin and End
• Black As The Devil Painteth
• Bring Forth Ye Shadow
• Cassandra
• Cheerful Dirge
• City Of Light
• Commute
• Crash / Concrete
• Crash/Concrete
• Deadland
• Debris
• Decades (Joy Division Cover)
• Der Spiegel
• Der Tanz Der Schatten
• Der Tanz Der Schatten (Club-Mix)
• Dialog From "And When He Falleth"
• Disintegration
• Dying - I Only Feel Apathy
• Empty
• Envision
• Episode
• Exile
• Fade
• Fair And 'Guiling Copesmate Death
• Flickerlight
• Forever Is The World
• Fragment
• Frozen
• Hide And Seek
• Highlights
• Hollow
• Hollow-HeartèD, Heart-DepartèD
• Illusions
• Image
• Image (French Version)
• Lament Of The Perishing Roses
• Let You Down
• Liquid Man
• Lorelei
• Machine
• MïRe
• Monotonë
• Motion
• Musique
• On Whom The Moon Doth Shine
• Play
• Poppæa
• Radio
• Retrospect
• Reverie
• Revolution
• Samantha
• Senseless
• Seraphic Deviltry
• Silence
• Siren
• Soliloquy
• Somnium Obmutun
• Space Age
• Starlit
• Storm
• Superdrive
• Sweet Art Thou
• The Breaking
• The Masquerader And Phoenix
• The New Man
• To These Words I Beheld No Tongue
• Transition
• Universal Race
• Venus
• Virago
• Voices
• You Keep Me Hangin' On