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Crimson & Crystal

from Divine Intervention by Julia Ecklar

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"Crimson & Crystal” is one of the few songs on Divine Intervention which I didn’t write, but which I liked enough to record.

I can’t speak to what inspiration was at work for Cynthia McQuillin when she wrote this song, but I found my connection to it after seeing a poignantly done suicide scene in a non-science fiction film.

I was shocked and moved by the scene, and strongly driven to play this song all alone by myself. It was then that I “discovered” my performance of it, and the arrangement that survives, virtually unchanged, on this recording.

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Crimson and Crystal deck Her shadowed halls,
And in incense and teardrops, Her voice gently calls.
But in that silent kingdom, the sun never shines,
For She’s locked it away in the fortress of Time.

Her eyes, they are hollow like deep, empty pools,
And Her touch is like ice that makes mortal blood cool.
Her existence is longing; She’s waiting for me.
My sweet Lady Death will soon set me free.

For in mansions of shadow She wanders each night.
But She’s ever alone outside Time’s patterned flight.
As She lays down beside each new lover She takes,
She whispers their names and they never awake.

Crimson and Crystal deck Her shadowed halls,
And the time soon is coming when we’ll all be called
To lie down in the silence of Her crystal sleep,
Where She’ll watch us and guard us in Her crimson keep.

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from Divine Intervention, released August 27, 1986
Song © 1979 Cynthia McQuillin

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