Proem

And as I walked through the garden of love.

I passed the gates of paradise and the gates

of perdition. Maybe the saddest experience

of all is that even the most wonderful and

precious moments don't last forever and

appear like a dream that faded much too

soon when looking back.

But both darkness and light are given to us

to make us prospect and grow: like every living

being needs the interplay of daylight's sweet

kiss and night's gentle embrace. And as

darkness falls while I'm drifting away on

the river of sadness, the remembrance of love's

golden sunlight is my only supply of logs for

the cold and lonely winter of the soul.

This album is a tribute to a love that was so

beautiful as long as it lasted and so bitter

when it ended: hence both love's heavenly

bliss as well as bereavement's abysmal

despair are to be found amongst these 10

songs; songs that are like sears to me now...

But still the dream remains, and yet my love

has not withered nor have my songs faded

away: Though Moonshadow died in the devastation

of declining Planet Kyrah. Sid survived -

but for how much longer?

Goodnight - and may the Goddess bless you all!

SID

When I'm dead, my Dearest,

sing no sad songs for me,

plant thou no roses at my head,

nor shady cypress tree:

Be the green grass above me

with showers and dewdrops wet;

and if thou wilt, remember,

and if thou wilt, forget.

[Christina Rosetti (1830-1894)]