Jeff Burgess - Eternal (2014) LYRICS

Servant to the sun, patient of the moon

My teacher, please be with me soon

So far away

Feathers in bed I slept on the floor

Smell of tea brewed in the morning

She's come to stay

I'll write home, it's due

I want my home with you

Cider and gin, mustache made of foam

I can write letters but I'll never be home

It's far away

Blankets of wings kept me safe and warm

From this union our reunion is a coming storm

She's weak and frayed

I'll write home, it's due

I want my home with you

Will I ever feel better?

Will I ever feel better?

Will I ever feel better?

I don't know

I wanna rest, this day has been too long

I know she's waiting and she doesn't belong

What will I say?

Backrubs in bed, teacher close the door

You're the princess, I'll sleep on the floor

I should go away

I'll write home, it's due

I want my home with you

Will I ever feel better?

Will I ever feel better?

Will I ever feel better?

I don't know

Empty bliss

You dream of thoughts and memories

Some will wed and some will kiss

But some stay trapped in memories

I sent invitations

Everyone will be there

Why do we keep meeting up like this?

You’re perfect again!

I wanted to show you

I could be like you

Maybe you would see

My empty bliss

I dream of thoughts and memories

Some will wed and some will kiss

But I will live in memories

“It is the sorrow of the long-lived to see something they love submit inevitably to change. But it is their joy to watch it grow.”

- Wise words, from long ago

Gone amiss

Find comfort in your memories

Some will grow a mask that fits

But some stay locked in memories

Empty bliss

Dreams of fading memories

It’s surely fine to reminisce

But some get lost in memories

You said you’d always be here for me

You promised

Princess in bed — slept drunk on the floor

In the morning we’ll do something more

I wonder about the whim which changed my life

Is coincidence or destiny my guide

Did our stars align, if so what for

On a whim I became something more

Keep your head off the ground

She’s sleeping so don’t make a sound

Let me sleep in your shadow

I love the way at night you glow

“You are a statue I can kick you

You are a statue by my spell”

I’m sober before sunrise, out the door

On your whim I became something more

“You are a statue I can kick you

You are a statue by my spell

You are a statue twice I’ll kick you

You are a statue as you fell”

If you wanna talk

I can make some time

I can brew some tea

As you close your eyes

If you wanna sleep

Take the bed it’s fine

A familiar scene

But now the set is mine

Sweet herbal tea pooled in the cup. Celestia and Twilight Sparkle gratefully sniffed the plume of steam that rose from it, smiling at each other, each taking a small amount of simple joy in the little ritual.

Empty bliss

I can make new memories

In your mind, I finally fit

Living in new memories

Slowly kiss

Aren’t these happy memories?

I’m your student, you’re my mistress

My heart surely lives for these

Let me crawl into your mind

No one ever has to find me again

And I can play pretend

This place is old and it remembers

It helps to tell the story through

This old staircase twirls and winds

please share the history of you

Sun must set

Moon must rise

Jealousy in her eyes

A thousand years, the time it flies

It’s time to set

Twilight skies

Forced by the wretched nightmare

She over came that cycle then

Reassured her sister that she was fine

It seems she’s setting again

Sun must set

Moon must rise

Jealousy in her eyes

A thousand years, the time it flies

It’s time to set

Twilight skies

This place is old and it remembers

Another chance to step inside her mind

Frantically searching for the place she lies

Miles of sand and not a host in sight

Maybe I’ll find her with the words I write

Can’t use my magic so I’ll carve the floor

Cavernous castles I create the door

Your letters light my darkest skies

Is that magic in your eyes?

This memory is purely falsified

Change of location, reinsure the pride

False information for your matricide

No explanation nor no study guide

Your letters light my darkest skies

Is that friendship in your eyes?

These rooms are old and so is she

Can your love set her free?

Chasing the fragments of the life she lied

Nobody knows what secrets lie inside

Searching for something I’m too lost to find

Have to stay clever when inside her mind

As you’re withering away

You can write her in your journal

As the sun she has to set

But all her love will be eternal

Don’t go chasing the sun

As she climbs to the highest tower inside her mind

Don’t assume that it’s done

Ancient bindings are the highest power and hard to find

I can feel you here

Is the real you near

Now she’s not here at all

And who will catch you when you fall

Who will love you when you’re on your own

Go through the garden

Around every stone wall

and inside the hedges she’s all alone

You’re so hard to find

I know that you’re dying

So hard to say goodbye

Leave your mask behind

I won't tell you

What I've been through

You just watched it all

When you fall

From the sky

I promise I won't cry

That's my heart keeping time

Faster than both yours combined

Your legs have been tied

But I'll stay by your side

And my eyes are just leaking

And my eyes.... my eyes...

I forgive you

You just lost control

And your soul

Might be scarred

But I hope it's not too hard

As for me

Here I'll be

Left in legacy

When you wake

Promise you'll take

A new protege

No, my eyes are not weeping...

No, my eyes... my eyes...

Let the door close

"And so it goes"

Punishment for every crime

Don't curse time

I will be fine

And my eyes are just leaking...

and my eyes... my eyes...

Wife to the sun

Sister to the moon

It means the world that you came home so soon

You were here for a moment

But for you, it was just your life

It's the tragedy of those who live forever

To watch the ones that they love die

I have lived a thousand life times

I've seen cities rise and fall, too

But I'd trade everything I've ever had

For just one more moment alone with you

Day and night they are eternal

But twilight only lasts so long

Legacy can not replace a life

But we all have to move on

So I'll write your name forever

In a celestial song

I take tea alone in the gardens

For without you it's not the same

Sometimes I see your face in corners

But when I turn and call your name

It's just a shadow or a trick of light

My longing heart's been fooled once again

I can't grasp that you won't return

When you feel so alive in every dream

You'd think that by this age that I'd have learned

That senses are never what they seem

Day and night they are eternal

But twilight only lasts so long

Legacy can not replace a life

But we all have to move on

So I'll write your name forever

In a celestial song