Pitch Black Prism - Arch / Matheos

A forbidden road to nowhere

The strays and shadows often wander alone

Through an un-enchanted forest

The abandoned ruins on the hill there

Still she waits for you, painted eyes ashen blue

Tiny dancer all her dreams were tainted

By a poison invisible, still she danced a perfect tragedy

Fall from grace, her fractured porcelain face

She was the immolation sent away

To raise the spirits of the dying

Did you feel betrayed, were you dreaming

Of a wheel in the sky where you touched the clouds

Laughed and cried?

Did you feel alone, were you drifting

Though those dead doll eyes, fading away

Through a pitch black prism?

Her iridescent silken hair spirals through the air

Like cattails swirling in the autumn winds

Falling gently to the mine

Children in the fields they gather flowers wilting away

As an empathetic requiem

And the music falls silent

She did not cry, she didn’t dare

A the musing turned fantasia

Unraveling all her fears

Did you feel alone, were you drifting

Through those dead doll eyes, fading away

Through a pitch black prism?

Through those dead doll eyes, fading away

Through a pitch black prism

Through those dead doll eyes, fading away

Fading away

Shine on Chernobyl doll, dance your last dance

The children they mustn’t know they are never going home

Radiant child bow in quiet repose

A dying swan lying in a bed of primrose

Irradiated flames they burn a cold, cold hellfire

Beyond the Iron Curtain falling empire

Takes secrets to the grave

What did they know before the afterglow?

A conspiracy to save their own

They know all roads lead to Moscow

Perilous flight of song-less bird

That could see over the horizon

Was blinded by the northern lights

And flew into the sun

Dying Chernobyl doll, dance your last dance

Soon they all will know they are never going home

Radiant child standing in the poison rain

All too well she knows this will never be her home again

Did you feel betrayed, were you dreaming

Of a wheel in the sky where you touched the clouds

Laughed and cried?

Did you feel alone, were you drifting

Though those dead doll eyes, fading away?

Through a pitch black prism

Though those dead doll eyes, fading away

Through a pitch black prism

Through those dead doll eyes, fading away

Fading away