The Ferryman's Answer

• Artist: Atrael Icruentatus
• Description: You won't connect the title with the piece unless you're familiar with stories by the Brothers Grimm. A young man sets out to acquire three of the black devil's blonde hairs. A ferryman asks why he is made to take people back and forth across the lake. The answer is that the next person to ask for a ride is to be taken to the other side, then the man must give the oar to the passenger. So the ferryman is freed.
• Date: 01/14/2009
• Tags: ferrymans answer

Would you tell me - If I asked
About that girl there in the corner?
Her hair's tied up in ribbons
But her eyes are red from crying
And she's clothed in a coffin satin dress

Can't you see her eyes say 'hurting'?
Don't you hear her ragged breathes?
I can feel the weight upon her chest
Always crushing, not mercifully fatal
Never tearing her coffin satin dress

Is she dead or is she living?
I want to hold her but I can't
Is this some new form of hell
To have love pass right through you?
She keeps a bleeding heart hidden beneath her coffin satin dress

Is there nothing i can do
Before her suffering drags me down?
Is this the consequence for caring?
Will you leave me here to drown?
I've been bound in the coffin satin dress

If I must sink, so be it
But please grant my last request
As I've taken up her place
So lay the dead girl down to rest
She gave to me her coffin satin dress

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