Song Description

This song is about a failed marriage and the difficulties experienced by both men and women as they try to satisfy their conflicting needs for love, freedom, and control.

Lyrics

When we went to Shadow Lake
The lake was like a looking-glass
And the truth was all too clear
In the faces we saw looking back

Arroyo faces, coarse and gentle
Traced with ancient feelings
Cunieforms that told the tale
Of all the ways that we had failed

The tracks around our eyes
Where the tears had dried
Marked our pilgrimage
And penance to the earth

Now I make no image in your mirror
I am Charon in your Hades
Fashioned by the things you fear
I am only what you?ve made me

I wish it had not come to this
It matters little what I say or do
When you cast me into the abyss
The abyss was inside you

Under Charon?s cloak of gray
All that I can say
Is that the Coat
Of Many Colors shines

Eidetic memory ? a still-point
Hidden deep inside
Far down below the tide
In the sediments of Shadow Lake

Before genetic chance
Or the choice we had to make
To lead or follow in the dance

There?s a Shadow Lake
In everyone
And it will surface
In the years to come



Jack Cegeste, Simon Mage
Copyright 2005, Mystery School Music, LLC