Lyrics
Procession of black
Held on a snowy winter's night
With sad faces gazing onto a lamp-lit grave
Over the ground
And all the colors faded,
There's nothing here left for me, I knew,
Rising to higher altitudes,
I drifted, I faded away.
But I still remembered what she said,
On her dying bed,
"When you follow me,
Far into the dark unknown,
Remember, remember who I was,
For when you see me there,
With a rose in the dark."
And I awoke in a cell,
Where faceless figures said I had failed at my goal,
They said they were sending me home,
Back where I used to be,
Existing to a shadow of what I could have become,
And five steps outside,
We passed a gate that shined a blinding white,
I asked, "What's in there?"
But they escorted me away,
They said I was never to look that way again,
But from inside, I could hear the words she had said,
On her dying bed,
"When you follow me,
Far into the dark unknown,
Remember, remember who I was,
For when you see me there,
With a rose in the dark."
And now they are walking me away from there
They are leading me much further away
And I am following into the darkness
And I can feel emptiness becoming me
No ancient, holy guard can stop me now,
I'm on my way through the gate at a terrifying pace,
Chasing after the one I had loved,
And I said take your hands off me, I belong in there,
As much as the wind in her hair,
Or the bare, autumn trees that shed the leaves that lay at her feet,
But when my hand touched the gate, the gray heavens splintered on down,
They sent me painfully back into the darkness,
And a voice spoke deep into my skull,
Said, "Too late, you've lost your turn,"
"And she's someone else's bride now,"
And now I just walk around,
An only ghost in a ghost town,
But one night, a package came from an unknown source beyond the gate,
And inside was a rose.
