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The Wake

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Nightingale Canonical path: /nightingale/the-wake Related lyric paths: 6
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The Wake

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Come into my game of solitaire

You could enter in and read me like a scrawl

Adrift upon the tide and in the air

I will let you see the dreamer through the wall

I wish that we could pick the world apart

I believe there is someone inside the pain

Life is wasted here behind the veil

I will never be free

Can't you see that I've mourned again

I watch the days they crash into the night

All the secrecy the angels never came

The fine line between what's yours and mine

Is it mine alone the solitude of shame

The whispered word and now you're on my side

I am almost alive in your care my love

I'll believe you when you set me free

I'll believe you though you don't know who I am

Take me through the darkness to the world beyond

Will you wait for my arrival at the wake

No one will remember me when I have gone

And they'll never understand they're at the wake

The fear of fire burning red and white

Will my name remain carved inside a stone

Your celestial son is born tonight

To a waiting grave the dreamers have to go

I see the signs of the veil up high

I can feel you whenever you move on the wall

I'll release you when you've turned the tide

I'll release you and burn you away from my soul

Someone here will never see the world outside

I will never know who's waiting at the wake

Someone here will never have to be alone

You're the one who will remember at the wake

I'll let the waters cleanse my eyes

And follow the priest into the circular light

I'll let you go when I have fallen

And you don't know where you've arrived this time my love

Curse believe me when I summon you

There's another dream it beckons you to go

Summer's waiting for you to be new

I'll erase the dream now I go to sleep

And I can feel forever cry for me this time

You are not the only one here at the wake

No one will remember what was once my crime

And they'll never understand this is my wake

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Are there related songs to explore after "The Wake"?

Yes. The related section below points to 27 (Curse Or Coincidence?) and A Lesson in Evil with a short reason for opening each page next.

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