Lyrics

Oh Mother of Sorrows
Please hear me
I’m your favored son
The walls have finished their closing in

Oh Matron of Suffering
I breathe deep
the winds of regret
Its cold embrace spreads ‘round my slowly beating heart

I’ve always felt your touch
So much that now I long for it

Alone, in this life of horrors
It’s only in you that I trust

You’ve been with me
Since I was
Barely old enough to speak
From the gray shores
And black waters
My own innocence was yours to reap

Omnem Dimittite Spem
O vos intrantes

Your lavish gifts
Of otherness
Swathed in grief and fear
Crippling malaise
The deepest hole
That now only you can fill

Oh Mother hold me tight
Don’t let me slip outside your steely gaze
Entwine your icy fingers
In the cold stark light of my dismay
Let loose the crushing waters
Roiling just outside my will to be