Ophelia’s Lament

from Fantasy by Nikki Joy

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V1)
Shall I recall in this darkness of night
What drove me to such fearful state?
But alack and alas! I’ve forgotten my past,
And what dark, shattered remnants remain
Remain...
Oh what dark shattered remnants remain

I once knew a love, oh how sweet did it seem!
His whispers ensnared me like honey
But what blackness is this? Fie on every fond kiss!
For he swears now that never he loved me,
The Rogue!
Oh what madness has driven him from me?!

CH)
My name! My name!
‘Tis the saddest of things
And ‘tis none but my lover to blame
For Hamlet was he
Who stole my sanity
And who clove my heart in twain
In twain
And who clove my heart in twain

V2)
A name you ask, but no more have I...
Oh rosemary help me recall!
All to grief, all grief!
I shall name him a thief,
Who’s hands spilt my kin’s blood on the wall
The wall
For my father was slain on the wall!

Shall I go to the field all a summer morn bright
For to fresh pluck some pansy for thought?
Or a violet so blue? Shall I cut it in two?
For his loyalty now counts as naught
As naught
Oh his loyalty now counts as naught!

CH)
My name! My name!
‘Tis the saddest of things
And ‘tis none but my lover to blame
For Hamlet was he
Who stole my sanity
And who clove my heart in twain
In twain
And who clove my heart in twain

V3)
So down by the water I walked all a day
And the river did beckon me near
And so down knelt I, ‘neath a mournful blue sky
For to weep my wont of tears
Of tears
There to weep my wont of tears

And so down I lay in the glistening rush
On a bed that which sun-diamonds paved
And the last breath I breathed was the last that I grieved
For the found me in watery grave,
Oh grave!
Aye, my sorrows were quenched by the grave!

CH)
My name! My name!
‘Tis the saddest of things
And ‘tis none but my lover to blame
For Hamlet was he
Who stole my sanity
And who clove my heart in twain
In twain
And who clove my heart in twain

For Ophelia was my becursed name!

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from Fantasy, released February 15, 2020

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