Song, Chant, Poetry, Stories and Satire for the Pagan Community

This entry made: 11/06/1997

Title: Come To Me
Lyrics by: Isaac Bonewits
Tune: original
Date: 1989, 119996
Source: http://www.qed.net/Bonewits/IB_Songs.HTML
Recorded on: "Avalon Is Rising!" Isaac Bonewits - available here
Subject: Death/Rebirth

(Key of D-minor)

Come to me my beauty, / I've something for you here;
A mystery you do not know, / there's nothing you should fear.
Come to me, / come to me.

Countless are the maidens / who've passed beneath my gate;
But none has ever left again. / I am the hand of Fate.
Come to me, / come to me.

Strip off your gown and jewels / remove all that you own
There's nothing you can bring below / save naked flesh and bone.
Come to me, / come to me.

Never have I witnessed / such beauty and such grace
Come here and lie down by my side / accept my cold embrace.
Come to me, / come to me.

You say you cannot love me / for all the things I kill
But Age and Fate my sweet one / are far beyond my will.
Come to me, / come to me.

If you must still deny me / the passions that I urge
Then I must bid you to kneel down / you must accept my scourge.
Come to me, / come to me.

The serpent now is rising / so grant to me the boon
You feel the pangs of love I know / your pain will vanish soon
Come to me, / come to me.

And yes! the worlds are spinning! / and yes! the Wheel turns round!
Love and Death and sweet Rebirth / within our glory found.
Come with me / yes! you come with me!

(instrumental break)

No one has ever touched me / the way that you have done
My cold heart you have melted / by surrender you have won.
Stay with me / stay with me.

You've taken in my seed now / it's deep within you set
No matter what may come to pass / I know you won't forget.
Stay with me / stay with me.

I'll give to you my power / to weild as if your own
I'll lay my sword down at your feet / I'll share with you my throne.
Just stay with me / stay with me...

I know you must depart now / to rule your worlds above
But when cold winds begin to blow / remember our warm love.
And come to me / please come to me / you'll come to me...

[This song was originally called "His Side of the Story" or 
"Hades' Song," but (as is often the case) wound up being
called the name by which it was usually requested. Though 
not Politically Correct (is anything I write?), it does present a
nearly complete picture of British Traditionalist Wiccan 
mythology and much of its duotheology (for the rest, read Dion
Fortune's book, Applied Occultism, especially the chapter on 
"Isis and Osirus").]

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