Interpret:

Paradise Lost

Album:

Symbol of life

[Bonus track] 
[music and lyrics by Dead Can Dance] 


Fair Roseanna your vagrancy's a familiar tale 
Fraught with danger the lives you led were judged profane 


Hatred enfolds us 
Inculcates the minds with it's heresy 
Laymen enfold us 
Clemency arrives to set you free 


Faith 
Although Xavier has prayed 
That life-giving waters may rain 
Down on the souls of man 
To cure them of their ways 


These were the sins of Xavier's past 
Hung like jewels in the forest of veils 
Deep in the heart where the mysteries emerge 
Eve bears the stigma of original sin 


Freedom so hard when we are all bound by laws 
Etched in the seam of nature's own hand 
Unseen by all those who fail in their pursuit of faith 


Although Xavier has prayed 
That life-giving waters may rain 
Down on the souls of man 
To cure them of their ways 


And as the night turns into day 
Will the sun illuminate your way 
Or will the nightmares come home to stay 
Xavier's love lies in chains 


These were the sins of Xavier's past 
Hung like jewels in the forest of veils