Through Dust, Through Rain - Therion

Dear child of mine, pain turns to destiny…

Down from the mountains, in the form of a rose

The thunder of oceans shall bring forth the ghost

Of an infinite star that will rest in my tree

Like the full moon of night

Descending like me

Such is my journey

No matter where my spirit shall travel

You will be there…

Winter sheds its grief in snow

Summer weeps

It must be so

Thus let thee live

Unseen, unknown

Light is the body and no more than a shell

Releasing our spirits to heaven or hell

While embracing my love to let go of your hand

And to reach for a kingdom forgotten by man

Forgive my sister, she would not come

This travel, she said, you must do alone…

Bring to heart Johanna’s name

Through my blood you share the same

To hold, to keep through dust, through rain

Say you knew

Yes only you could grow the seeds of time

Run and flow through silver snow

Of mountains spring must climb

From this hill, to waters still

My heart will guide your way

Love and wrath, my epitaph

Before your name I lay