A Shadow I Remain - Through the Hours of Despair Lyrics

In the shadow's cradle a silent lament
Whispers curl like smoke in the cold descent
Ghosts of my thoughts in the blackness dance
Night's cold arms embrace the expanse
Ghosts of my thoughts in the blackness dance
Night's cold arms embrace the expanse

Through the hours of despair alone I roam
Beneath the stars in the dark I comb
The echo of my steps a hollow tone
Night's horrors bared to the bone

My heart a chalice for the nocturne's wine
Drinks deeply of the solitude bittersweet brine
Spectral fears in the silence they breed
Under the moon's watchful creed

In the veiled garden of forgotten sighs
I wander lost where my spirit flies
Past shadows grip with frosty ties
Awaiting dawn's merciful rise

Each minute a century time crawls in dread
Fleeing the spectres of words unsaid
Yet in this dark my fears bleed and blend
With hopes for the night to end

Through the hours of despair alone I roam
Beneath the stars in the dark I comb
The echo of my steps a hollow tone
Night's horrors bared to the bone

"and it's forward my mission entail"
And when the first light tears the veil
The shadows pale my fears frail
Released at last from the night's jail
Into the dawn I sail

Into the dawn I sail