MELODY OF THE LUTE (SONG OF GILBERT)
(FFIV)
 
 
The lute is playing.
Can you hear it, my love?
The lute plays for thee.
The melody is sad, and
The song is bitter, not sweet.
The lute plays for thee.
 
 
The lute is playing.
I know you hear it, my late love.
The lute plays a morbid tune,
And though it flies through the air on wings damp with sorrow,
May it make its way to heaven.
The lute plays for thee.
 
 
The lute is playing
And as it plays, as its poignant song reaches thy ever-listening ears,
You should know that its notes are graced with my tears.
Shall I ever grow apart from you
Or shall I remain attached to a dream?
The lute plays for thee.
 
 
My sadness is not a passing cloud,
Nor a silent tempest of loss.
It is a constant in my world, a lifestyle,
That I can never, for a moment dismiss.
 
 
The lute is playing.
Its strings bear sounds touched with a darkness,
A maelstrom, a sinking feeling.
The force that held me up has left me falling down.
The echoes of my heart are my only solace.
The lute plays for thee.
 
-K-
 
(edited on 11.04.02)