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Emerging Into the Brightness of the Day

Recognise?

I am alone

In search of Cassandra, Princess of Troy

Summer Solstice Song

Güzelsin

Wedding Hymn

My City has been Burned to the Ground

January 13th

Another Mad Message

Time to Go Home

Dark Shine

January 13th
words & music by Ed Hooke, 13th January 1995   -   © Ed Hooke 1995 & 2007

The sun is going down.
Helius is west away
abandoning the day. 

As light begins to fade
defeated spoils of war
a silhouette before the Lion Gate casts aside her garlands

A stranger here enchained
alone
forced to intrude
in someone else's feud....

The conquering king is dead.
He won eternal fame
but I forget his name, and not yours.
You cast aside your garlands.

One by one the torches flicker and they fail.
A woman clad in ragged robes is kneeling.
Done is her defiant dance.
Persephone awaits.
A foreign slave is sacrificed.

Robbed from the embers of your home....
Out of the fire and
into this dying land....
There'll be no funeral for you
for no-one knows you here.
It's the 13th day of the year.

And one by one the torches flicker and they fail.
A woman clad in ragged robes is kneeling.
Done is her defiant dance.
Persephone awaits.
A foreign slave is sacrificed.

One by one the candles flicker and they fail.
A figure clutched by shadows is still.
Done is your defiant dance.
Now Hecate awaits.
Cassandra's spark goes out.