Track Insight / Lyrics
Skewed typewriter keys clack / revealing secrets, one character at a time
Moonbeams dance upon the metal / as letters coalesce into thoughts sublime
A bereaved mistress's crimson soles / bleed across pages, line by line
Echoes of love that didn't quiet / until the winter's icy shrine
In this forgotten sanctum / where ghosts of passion still reside
A melancholy requiem / for love that could not abide
Ripened light, ripened light / upon the pages of our past
Revealing absences revealing what we lost
in the shadows that will surely last
Ripened light, ripened light / bearing witness to our heartache deep
A bittersweet illumination that never can release
Tattered love letters yellowed with age
yellow as the autumn leaves that cling
To branches, baring skeletal forms / as memories, like winter's bare trees, sing
Echoes of caresses whispers of devotion
stilled by time's relentless merciless tide
Yet on these whiter-than-snow sheets / our love stories come alive
Ripened light, ripened light / upon the pages of our past
Revealing absences revealing what we lost
in the shadows that will surely last
Ripened light, ripened light / bearing witness to our heartache deep
A bittersweet illumination that never can release
Cathedral tones fill the night / as the organ's voice ascends
Mournful hymns that pierce the gloom / a requiem for love's demise
Ripened light, ripened light / upon the pages of our past
Revealing absences, revealing what we lost / in the shadows that will surely last
Ripened light, ripened light / bearing witness to our heartache deep
A bittersweet illumination that never can release
The typewriter's song subsides / into silence, the night takes hold
As the alley's secrets slowly / fade like apparitions cold...
Until the ripened light returns / to mutter truths of love and loss
In the heart of winter's solitude / where stories of the past still last.
