I fall down, down into sleep Where, near death, dismal spectres roam With a heavy heart, calmed by despair I peer deep, deep into the gloom I see this strange place, when, like in death, I awake I draw breaths of sweet, sickly air And cast my eyes along this veiled road There I walk in the desolation A pallbearer for long passed days In this strange and obscure place A despondent land of lonely ruin I see weary and weeping faces And hear my own decaying voice "My heart is breaking So when my time comes Please lay me down in the water And let me drift away" A crowd is there on a wind-swept shore They're staring out to sea With the tide I depart In cold grey seas beneath the stars With the bleak land so far away... I'm gone Slumbering thoughts bring waking lies From sad phantoms of the past Who excavate shadows But set my heart at rest