Before You Sing Lyrics

Before you sing Before you strum your silken strings Uncloud your mind Take yourself out of time Remember me as a child Unviolated and wild Laid out upon your bed The wine but not the bread Your thirst among my fears Your verse for only my ears But you had magic you had might You had everything in sight And everything I gave to you And still you do not know me Before you sing Before you strum your silver strings Put down your cup Which drowns the sounds of us One hallowed night defiled I conceived your child The life that your disowned The wife you tried to own At the crossroads of will The child you had me kill But you had causes you had hope You always had enough rope But as your mother I gave birth to you And still you do not know me Before you sing Before you strum your muted strings Put down your cross Consider what it has cost My mask it mirrors yours The task you must endure Laid out upon your bed To cup your weary head But the mirror is unseen And your life is obscene You have poisoned well the songs you sell You've created hell upon earth And the gleemen laugh With their ghoulish glee And still you do not know me