Lyrics:
Thomas Ghirardelli, Martyr Lucifer & GroM, from the Hortus Animae CD “The
Blow Of Furious Winds” 2005
Memories of
an old mariner carved on a rotten table of the ancient vessel. Memories on the
rotten table... I carved in these words throughout journeys round the world, to remember
happiness, sorrow and solitude. A life-long sorrow spent ploughing the seas, witnessing souls depart, landing
from port to port. I have learned the cultures of the world, from past and
future, all the rotten kingdoms. I have savoured love, envy, revenge (Memories
of the rotten table...) I have seen the worlds' prisons and I have seen the
unexplored islands, I have seen my shipmates' death and now I sail alone... And
now I'm sailing through this stormy sea and now I'm sailing across an ocean,
enraged. By its waves I rise and offer my total demise, I'll feed this last
storm with the shadows of my life. Now I sail alone and listen to the silence
of this sea of pain, water everywhere. I am adrift, there is no wind, death is the storm destined to fall on the
vessel. A seagull consumes our last provisions, no stopping it as death draws
near (Memories of the rotten table...) I'll perish soon, the vessel will sink
with me, sink with me and all of my knowledge. These memories will be carried
by the waves who knows where, who knows who, will find them and by whom they'll
be read. But now farewell, the silence calls me to this sea of pain forever. In
this stormy sea the waves carry me on, a-hoy! They carry me to drift across the
sea of pain, or come to save me, save me but pity me not and by the waves I'll
take a breath to penetrate the storm (storm) and drift across the sea of pain,
I care not for salvation, so leave me to die and leave me forever...