Chapter 3: The Words You Hide - Sylvan

Where do we go?

How strange, but I don’t know!

The words you hide, would they mean more than the things you show?

Then you look at me — is it my fault?

Is it my fault?

Blind out inside, it’s hard but I try

I wonder if the words we’d share could match your smile …

Then you smile at me, and I feel you!

Yes, I feel you …

Future … unsure … failure … am I?

How do they see you?

… perceive you?

… so untrue!

Within the woods we hide — It looks as if they bleed

A million trees in sight — their branches are crushing me

I’d fell them all to pave a path for you … I’d make them fall just to protect

you …

And the cold wind hurts my eyes — amongst the whirling leaves

It’s as if I heard your cries … as if you’re calling me

How will you quit these woods when I am gone?

An endless dream … wake up, wake up, wake up!

So angry … in frailty … who’s guilty?

… not fair!

It breaks me and wounds me … so violently … so where do we go?

Once in a lullaby, songs from another time … so bright …

Hear our melody, bring back this time to me … tonight, here tonight …

Peacefully see how you breathe while you sleep …

Needless to speak to be near …

Sing, like we did before … lite and alive once more … inside me …

Rise like a violin and climb from the deep … Melody, come back to me!

Breathe with you now, yes, I breathe in your beat

While we breathe we compose our own symphonies

And I breathe with you now … and the air that we breathe

Fills my own wordless silence with our old melody

Feel things that I should know, they seem so long ago … inside …

Stay for a moment, please rest for a while … give me my peace back, tonight.

Melody, where are you gone?

If I lift my head … what will I see?

Look up, look up now … No sound, but only icy wind … again, again, again …

Thoughts — here you stay … still the same, day by day

I hope those thoughts I bear will not divert you away

Then I stare at you, do you see it?

Do you see it?

Worn out … look down … weak as I am …

Worn out … can’t go on like this … no more …

Here I am alone, silence all around … hide out, hide away

Open up my eyes, see the leaves surrounding me …

Pick them up, pick them up … then I face up to their weight

And I raise my head — at least I try — raise my hand and let them fly …

Rise up, rise up now …

And suddenly, beyond the trees, a passage past the long uncertainties!

I wonder why I did not see before …

It was never far but always near — I dared to lift my head yet you showed me

To face it though the end of this way’s not clear …

Now I look ahead, walk in your beat to carry my responsibility

Fly, my leaf, just fly away with me … Come this way, please, come with me …

It’s full of light and full of melodies!

Take your time 'cos I will wait for you