Duende

Like a demon, like a ghost

Balancing on nerves, dancing on the edge

Like a wheel or a dream

Spinning endlessly, spinning helplessly

A painted drama, a feverish restraint

An unspoken trauma in sweltering nights

Like a ray of light that stains a bitter sweetness

Into the darkest wine

A dark chimera wide awake

Sipping from the lifeblood

I drank, drank from you

I drank wine like blood

Blood like wine

And the magic sounds of inspiration

I learned, learned from you

A hidden secret

Black as rain

Moving me, moving on and on

This is the way of the mystic

Into the eyes of god

This is the weight the moves the hand

This is the hand that moves the stone

A ravaged beauty, unfeeling and unsafe

A power that resides in the labyrinth of sound

This is a fire that ignites itself

This is a mystery of art

So much more than craft or chemistry

Gabriel 'gainst Azrael

You spoke, spoke to me

A silent prayer

For the pain

And the driving force of desperation

You sang, sang to me

Haunting songs of hope

And songs of doubt

Moving me, moving on and on

A force like lightning over mountains

A permanent disease

It's you and me together

On a highway without end

I drank, drank from you

I drank wine like blood

Blood like wine

And the magic sounds of inspiration

I learned, learned from you

A hidden secret

Black as rain

Moving me, moving on and on