Ten small pages written in the darkA graphite confession, a desperate sparkLeft in a drawer where the shadows resideThe deepest devotion he forced to hideHe rode through the mud on a treacherous trackWith the weight of the silence holding him backHe sat by the candle in Teplitz aloneWriting a sonata only she would have known.(Chorus)Are you ever thine? Are you ever mine?Are you ever ours through the bending of time?My angel, my all, my life and my peaceIn the quiet of winter, will this longing cease?The music is screaming what I cannot speakThe happiest man, yet broken and weak.(Verse 2)The world calls him master, the king of the soundBut the silence is heavy, it’s wrapping aroundHe captures the thunder, the storm in the skiesBut he lives for the light in her distant eyesHe begs her be calm so their purpose can liveFor love demands all that a spirit can give"So near and so far," he weeps on the pageA prisoner of fate, a bird in a cage.(Chorus)Are you ever thine? Are you ever mine?Are you ever ours through the bending of time?My angel, my all, my life and my peaceIn the quiet of winter, will this longing cease?The music is screaming what I cannot speakThe happiest man, yet broken and weak.(Bridge)He used the word "Du," tore the formal awayIn a breathless surrender of what he couldn't sayNo name on the binding, no stamp on the sealJust an echo of passion too tragic to feelDid she know his heart? Did she look for the post?Or did she just dance with a beautiful ghost?(Guitar/Piano Solo - Sweeping, dramatic, shifting from a soft melody to a crashing crescendo)(Chorus)Are you ever thine? Are you ever mine?Are you ever ours through the bending of time?My angel, my all, my life and my peaceIn the quiet of winter, will this longing cease?The music is screaming what I cannot speakThe happiest man, yet broken and weak.(Outro)The ink has faded, the centuries flownThe secret remains with the ghost on his throneBut under the notes of the Emperor’s strainLives the Immortal Beloved, and the beautiful pain.Ever thine.Ever mine.Ever ours.
