We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Perfect Sunrise

from After Sunset by Orphic Elegy

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Deluxe shrinkwrapped digipak with liner notes containing lyrics, and a big thank you for your interest.

    Includes unlimited streaming of After Sunset via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD or more 

     

lyrics

Asleep in your summer dress
Dirty hair still gathered
In a clip
Today’s worries slowly floating off your chest
Tonight’s dreams whispering off your lips

Here am I
Where I fell
Too exhausted to run
Eyes fixed on the horizon
Waiting for the sun

Your day shone perfect and markless
Warm, brilliant, bright
It fell away too soon to darkness
Replaced by night

I’m the one who remembers what once was
And now is gone
The only one who sees bitter dusk
And remembers hopeful dawn

What was beautiful was mutable
And rare as hen’s teeth
Though it ran deep, it could not keep
When faced with what’s beneath

I can’t see Thermopylae
I know you’re sleeping there
I ran my ship aground
When the sails began to tear

Of actors, words, and stage
Our labyrinth is made
And now I cannot find my way
Out of this masquerade

With all my strength,
I tried to hold on
To the fire in the perfect sunrise
But I cannot hold on to my burning heart
When your hair drifts
In front of your eyes

The ground gets colder every minute
I sit and wait for your return
But I made this stand, and I’ll die in it
Remembering the burn

I could feel you once
But now your light is too far
It has grown so very cold
Since you became a distant star

credits

from After Sunset, released April 1, 2020

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Orphic Elegy image

Orphic Elegy Albany, New York

An ethereal addition to the folk/worldmusic realm. Orphic Elegy tugs at the strings that tie us to our dreams, and weaves a potent spell in the space between.

contact / help

Contact Orphic Elegy

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Orphic Elegy, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now