This is another song a long time in the making. It has a very special meaning of a time when I was studying the work of Maurice Maeterlinck. Here is a painting that is related: "The Doors of Death, Life & Chance"
Go here to listen ... read the lyrics below.
Melancholia [the doors of Death, Life and Chance]
Time grows heavy - I long for the fog.
Vivid light - too crude, too bright -
revealed too much of me.
Sometimes we must know the darkness of the mind.
Go the night sea journey blind through the suffering of the soul,
“to learn to love with a love that’s more than love.”
We are the sheep - thrust in a world of danger and chance,
nourished and destroyed, awakened from the trance.
Forces sever, yet link us to the Flow.
I bathe in the light-drenched realm of the afterglow.
Darkened spheres attract the distant flame.
Open up these human doors, distancing from evil.
Show mercy to the sad-despised...
our highest instincts following the light.
Hush-- the silence -
The passing of this sadness is creative breath released.
Ascend the spirit ladder - past melancholia.
These are the great moods -
the lenses through which we read our minds
to become the living soul (reach through the doors of death, life and chance). (rep)
Notions and sensations of such solitude
are simply daylight’s night mood.
Open up these human doors, distancing from evil.
Show mercy to the sad-despised...
our highest instincts following the light.
Ascend the spirit ladder - past melancholia.
These are the great moods ---
