Lifeless 가사

Mem'ry haunts me clearly The winter of my thirteenth year Wind moaned through headstones dreary A siren song only I could hear A fevered brain infected Where terrors spawned each night A young man grew dejected A waking dream, a fright amongst frights Though my symptoms at last abated And the coughing fits did surcease An insalubrious nature gestated Breeding malaise, a subtle disease Then with each passing breath In life, he dwelt in death This truth I now confess A morbid mind obsessed Unhealthy thoughts depressed By cryptic dreams possessed To ever dwell among, the lifeless Lifeless! A casket-builder's low-born boy Child of the grave in name and fact Grey days and nights in dark employ Set destiny 'pon its deathly path Dismissed as morbid youth Obsessions quite uncouth Led to unpleasant truths A morbid mind obsessed Unhealthy thoughts depressed By cryptic dreams possessed To ever dwell among, the lifeless As all life ends in death So with each passing breath My destiny professed To ever dwell among, the lifeless Into the family crypt, I stealthily crept Knowing not what I sought 'mongst the mold and the rot A sight that was not soon forgot And as I lay in the grave, finding the solace I'd craved At peace there with the decayed, though they called me depraved It was there a dark path was paved A morbid mind obsessed Unhealthy thoughts depressed By cryptic dreams possessed To ever dwell among, the lifeless As all life ends in death So with each passing breath A destiny professed To ever dwell among, the lifeless