Ligeia

[Verse 1]
Velvet drapes
The candles breathing
Ink-stained hands and sleepless eyes
I write your name until it's bleeding
Across the margins of my mind
Shadows lean
Your voice is calling
Through every crack within these walls
Are you a memory unfolding
Or are you walking through these halls?
[Chorus]
Ligeia
Are you dream or are you doom?
I feel you
In every tremor of this room
You rise from every line I write
Dark bride of thought and deathless night
Ligeia
You tear the veil of truth in two
[Verse 2]
Marble lids begin to shiver
Cold lips curve
A secret shown
I doubt my breath
My pulse
My shiver
But doubt is mortar in this home
All my logic burns like paper
When your eyes open in the gloom
Did I summon you from ether
Or did you claw out of the tomb?
[Chorus]
Ligeia
Are you dream or are you doom?
I feel you
In every tremor of this room
You rise from every line I write
Dark bride of thought and deathless night
Ligeia
You tear the veil of truth in two
[Bridge]
[Organ swells
Choir behind the vocal]
Reason drowns in whispered verses (Ligeia)
Faith is torn like fragile thread
If love can steal the soul from curses
What is life
And what is dead?
[Lone acoustic guitar under last line]
[Chorus]
Ligeia
Are you dream or are you doom?
I feel you
In every tremor of this room
You rise from every line I write
Dark bride of thought and deathless night
Ligeia
My cursed
Immortal
Bound-to-you
Ligeia
My last belief that death’s untrue

folk, Epic power metal ballad with male vocals: clean, soaring verses over acoustic guitar and church organ; double-kick drums and galloping bass enter for the chorus with harmonized guitars. Melodic tremolo leads weave around choirs in the bridge, then drop to a sparse, haunted outro. Big dynamic shifts between whispery intimacy and full-throated, operatic power., acoustic, ballad, speed metal, metal, power metal