With Twilight As My Guide - Renée Fleming

I’m bolted from within

From long conniving heights

The hail it makes a special sound

That always stays into the night

She tells me I’m not capable

Of what they accuse me With no remorse

I stand and say that

Guilty is what I plead

My devil makes me dream

Like no other mortal dreams

With a blank eye corner

The only way to see him

In the tunnel where he slept

By the longest tusk of corridors

Numb below the neck

In my heart

Where he keeps them

In a vault of devil daughters

When I bend in kicking form

With twilight as my guide

In every home

The ghost veins gossip

You can hear them if you try

When my quill begins to squirm

From the ashes in your urn

Your deviance is anything but faithful

My devil makes me dream

Like no other mortal dreams

With a blank eye corner

The only way to see him

In the tunnel where he slept

By the longest tusk of corridors

Numb below the neck

In my heart

Where he keeps them

In a vault of devil daughters

Everybody

Hangs like dead leaves

Don’t you hurt these

Branches waiting

I’ve been watching

You fall to me Don’t desert me

I’m not waiting

My devil makes me dream

Like no other mortal dreams

With a blank eye corner

The only way to see him

In the tunnel where he slept

By the longest tusk of corridors

Numb below the neck

In my heart

Where he keeps them

In a vault of devil daughters