Ophelia

[Verse 1]
Ophelia wandered out into the belly of the woods
To bleed out any ounce of love
That once beat in her heart
That beat for him, the sleeping man
In the silence of the absence of her self-fulfilling dreams
Ophelia found a place to rest where the river finds the sea
Of all the beauty that she had ever seen
Ophelia felt it all at once, and one with everything
And so with him, the sleeping man

[Chorus 1]
Her restless heart had done it again
A fool for a hollow dream
And then love sick and out of sorts
She’d fallen on the sleeper’s sword

[Verse 2]
So Ophelia wandered out into the belly of the sea
So she could finally see herself, as she was meant to be
And cradled by the water, rocking her to sleep
Ophelia made a promise
“From thine own self be free”
And fell into the arms of the deep

[Verse 3]
A knight, travelling home from war
His dreams as black as ink
Knelt upon the river’s edge
Death haunted
To wash his grizzled face and drink
And as he cupped his empty hands
To bring ‘em to his lips
A vision of a woman nearly stopped his breath
He knew this woman
He’d see her in his dreams
She’d haunted him on the battlefield
And gave him cause to live
Of all of the beauty that he had ever seen
Now he felt it all at once
Now he felt it all at once, Ophelia

[Chorus 2]
Her restless heart had done it again
A fool for a phantom queen
He dropped his armor and his sword
And all that he had ever been

[Verse 4]
The knight looked in the water
To find his river queen
And there, he saw a man like him
Where she had always been
Of all the beauty that he had ever seen
Now he felt it all at once
And one with everything
And so with her, Ophelia