Boulevard Black - Netherbird

Death like, pale graceful ballet

In silence drawing near

For a second mere

Forlorn silhouettes For an instant there

Only to disappear, forever changing all

And the few that see, and still believe

Sweet, painful, fragile

Dreams…

A haven of chaos

So scarred and so alone

Walking dead

Lost in streets unknown

We were once the invisible ones

Those that spoke and no one heard

Ghosts dancing in silver lit nights

And never to return to this world

Ivory and dye

Delicate porcelain

Calm these façades

Lost in rain relentless

The brilliant and shining few

Who once drowned amongst the grey

Spite the pain and whipping rain

Chose to walk these lesser travelled ways

Away!

Walking down this road

Many its winding turns

A barren scar of stone

Though all that stings and hurts

Walk on to new rivers

The ones of old ran dry

Their barren depths unveiled

Crystal streams fell prey to the hands of time

Days and nights go by, one by one

Like water slipping through tired fingers

Precious gems stolen from idle hands

Small pieces of the sun, now lost

Adrift in eternal darkness

Breathing in the gloom

Walking darkened gardens

Where only shadows bloom

Oh, this world looks so different now

A little more dies with every passing day

Every minute steals a color

Flawing beauty in all ways

Memories start to dither, one by one

Dreams fall to splinters, one by one

Seems like I am dying

No air for these lungs

It feels like I am dying

So far from home

Beneath the celestial canopy

Angel wings and demon seeds

Beneath the celestial canopy

The legions march with me

We walk the boulevard black

Across these fields of grey

Like ghost adrift in gloom

In search for other ways

A place where we belong

We walk down boulevard black

An endless row of souls

And we are marching home

We walk down Boulevard so black

An endless stream of time

This finite march called life

We walk down Boulevard so black

This overflow into the unknown

Back to where we came from

Praised be those of silence

The blood tainted ivory innocence

Praised be those that differ

Blessed be the children of the fall

Those that walk the boulevard black

The legions of the left hand avenue

An ode to the fallen

An ode to for the lost

An ode to the stranded

To those that still burn

All of the chains are splintered

Those that woke are walking, fairlight

All of my dreams are dead now

All golden lies are lead now

All of my angels have fallen

We walk this earth like ghosts

All of my angels are fallen

All of my angels are beautiful

Sing to me oh you sweet bleeding planet

Sing to us that walk your ruins

Sing to us for our words are dead

Sing to us for their world is dead to us

An ode for the thinning breed of angels

For their crimson lips and tangled feathers

Majestic wings are spread climbing the sun

One for the reason in reasoning no more

Walking down this road

Many its winding turns

A barren scar of stone

Though all that stings and hurts

And we are like fire flies

Boldly daring the night

And we dance for a radiant while

Born to drift out of time…

But for a second mere we glared

For an instant we were there

Before the last grain of sand fell

No tears as I bid thee fare well…

We walk down Boulevard so black

An endless stream of time

This finite march called life

We walk down Boulevard so black

This overflow into the unknown

Back to where we came from

We walk down boulevard black

Across these fields of grey

Like ghost adrift in gloom

In search for other ways

A place where we belong

We walk the boulevard black

An endless row of souls

And we are marching home

We are like fire flies

Boldly daring the night

And we dance for a radiant while

Born to drift out of time…

But for a second mere we glared

For a shining instant we were there

Before the last grain of sand fell

No tears as I bid thee fare well…

At the end of a black boulevard