Miscellaneous » LOREENA MCKENNITT: The Mask And Mirror

The Mask And Mirror(1994)

Auf der "Quinlan Road" ist zu lesen:
...und 1995 mit dem Juno-Preis für das „Best Roots/Traditional Album“ ausgezeichnet. In den Stücken, die einem Pfad der Inspiration von Irland nach Santiago de Compostella folgen, sind spanische, keltische und marokkanische Einflüsse spürbar. Neben vertonten Gedichten von St. John Of The Cross und William Shakespeare sind auch eklektische Originaltexte voller Struktur im Album enthalten – so beispielsweise das verführerisch dramatische Stück „The Music’s Dream“ (Im Film Jade von Paramount Pictures zu hören) und „Marrakesh Night Market“.


THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

Upon a darkened night
the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest

Shrouded by the night
And by the secret stair I quickly fled
The veil concealed my eyes
while all within lay quiet as the dead

CHORUS
Oh night thou was my guide
of night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other

Upon that misty night
in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
Without a guide or light
than that which burned so deeply in my heart
That fire t'was led me on
and shone more bright than of the midday sun
To where he waited still
it was a place where no one else could come

CHORUS

Within my pounding heart
which kept itself entirely for him
He fell into his sleep
beneath the cedars all my love I gave
From o'er the fortress walls
the wind would his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest hand
caressed my every sense it would allow

CHORUS
I lost myself to him
and laid my face upon my lover's breast
And care and grief grew dim
as in the morning's mist became the light
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
there they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
there they dimmed amongst the lilies fair


Words by St. John of the Cross; arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt
Music by Loreena McKennitt