Death's Own Serenade - A Tragic Love Song - Dark Gothic Folk

   / @echoes-in-the-ash   Death's Own Serenade is a sad song of forbidden love. It tells of a Banshee who falls in love with someone she is destined to mourn. #darkfantasymusic #gothicfolk #sadlovestory #darkfolk #echoesintheash Lyrics: By the hawthorn tree at the edge of the glen Where the fog curls low and the night creeps in I sang to the wind, as I’ve always done A voice for the dead, not the living one I am bound to the hush before souls depart With a cry that fractures the strongest heart No hand to hold, no fire to keep I walk with the wail of the endless sleep But you came walking where all should dread With a laugh that danced where I fear to tread Oh love, don’t look at me that way I am the voice that steals your day I am the chill before the grave The song no living soul can save And still you reach, and still I stay Though I am death’s own serenade You carved my name in the old oak’s skin Said even I could let love in But I’ve seen the end in the silver stream Your face gone pale in a final dream Each night I linger where you lie Swallowing back that fatal cry For if I sing, then fate is sealed And spell nor prayer will have it healed Your heartbeat drums like a funeral bell And how this ends, I know too well Oh love, don’t beg me now to stay I am the price you’ll have to pay I am the wind that calls your name The echo no one dares to claim And still you hold me anyway Though I am death’s own serenade If I could break this dark refrain I’d drown my voice in the pouring rain But fate is older than grief or grace And I see the end in your tender face Hush now, my love, don’t speak, don’t cry For I have sung your last goodbye Oh love… I tried to turn away But doom has found us where we lay I am the wail the night has spun For you, my love—my only one And as your breath begins to fray I sing… and steal your soul away By the hawthorn tree, I weep alone For the only love I’ve ever known And the wind now carries a broken plea— The banshee mourns… her own destiny ✨ Subscribe to join the Circle and hear more great songs like this one.