Starlight (Eurydice Lives)

Words & Lyrics, 1995

Eurydice lies so still
Snake bite death
Her funeral wedding day

Orfeo descends to Hell
"I will free my soul! 
"No god will stand in my way!"

Can he free her?
Can he fight temptation? 
Simply lead her to the earth and sky?

Starlight
Daggers in the mind
Starlight
The darkness feeds the fire
Too late
Eternity

Starlight
A million angry eyes
Starlight
For you no compromise
Your fate
Eternity

Orfeo leads the way
Hades bowed
"I am lord of the gods!"

The winding path too long
Behind him a sound
He turns and she is gone

She is lost forever
Hopes dashed lifelines severed
This land of shades no earth or sky

Starlight
Daggers in the mind
Starlight
The darkness feeds the fire
Too late
Eternity

Starlight
A million angry eyes
Starlight
For you no compromise
Your fate
Eternity

Eurydice is free now
To be reborn
A new beginning

No Orfeo to wait on
He is on high
A constellation

Eurydice is here now
She seeks to find
That constant wedding

Are you the one she longs for?
No turning 'round
She holds creation
Lives celebration
Love's incantation
Imagination

Apollo's temples burn
Athena's priestesses dead
And Orfeo has only begun

Poseidon's trident flies
Orfeo falls
The body thrown beyond the skies

Bones in cold black heaven
Orfeo will know no earth
Only the empty sky

Starlight
Daggers in the mind
Starlight
The darkness feeds the fire
Too late
Eternity

Starlight
A million angry eyes
Starlight
For you no compromise
Your fate
Eternity

© Kirtland C. Peterson, 1995