Silver (The Hunger) Lyrics

Silver was a rounder with a wicked reputation                           
Music was his magic and his madness rolled in one                       
It's said he charmed the fairest hearts of this world's fairest maidens 
 
Quick as silver mercury and slippery as a song                          
                                                                        
Winding like a river through a thirsty world of strangers               
Carving out a legend in a dream-forsaken land                           
Silver took his pleasures just as freely as he gave them               
'Cause hungry eyes weren't quick enough for Silver's flashing hands     

Then once upon escaping from the world of silk and shadows           
Sudden growin' sicker of the secrets and the shame                   
He stumbled onto something real that beckoned like a candle          
And never lookin' backwards, he surrendered to the flame             
                                                                     
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Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool of sadness        
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below                        
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness                     
Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul                     
                                                                     
Silver moved instinctively within her soft defenses                  
Soon unfolding mysteries he'd never seen before                      
And wakening an ancient need, she slipped inside his senses          
And Silver took it easy as the closing of a door                     
                                                                     
Then soon he touched the secret fears she'd hidden with her sorrows  
Darker than her raven hair and deeper than her eyes                  
And dared to try to lead her to the sunlight from her shadows        
Following the line between her laughter and her lies                 

But Silver left his magic with the legend he'd abandoned              
Love had stripped him naked of illusion and it's charms                
Then one long night her changing mind took kindly to a stranger       
And morning found her moving in the golden stranger's arms            
                                                                      
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Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool of sadness        
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below                        
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness                     
Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul                     
                                                                      
Silver stared in silence at the tangled scene before him              
Time was burning frozen in the oceans of his eyes                     
And sadly turning backwards to the world that he'd forsaken           
He donned the shining mantle of deception and disguise               
                                                                      
Slowly, with the patience born of silent desperation                  
Silver worked his way into the darkness of her mind                    
Weaving through her conscience like a chance she might have taken     
Sadder than the shadows of the love she'll never find                
                                                                      
And Silver's spell was stronger than the softly smiling stranger      
Whose star was burning smaller in the naked light of day              
And Silver took her hand again, a wiser man, but sadder       
Ready for the stranger who would steal her love away          
                                                              
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Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool of sadness        
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below                        
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness                     
 Sworn to free the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul