"Crimson and Crystal" genre: Indie
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	This stirring folk/rock style ballad is a poignant and elegant walk with love and death. The loveliness and power of Julia's voice lends majesty to the classic rock arrangement, while her performance skills eloquently point up the gothic overtones of the lyrics. This track is from Julia's "Divine Intervention" CD, available from www.prometheus-music.com/buy/divine.html .
	CD: Divine Intervention   Label: Prometheus Music Credits: Song by Cynthia McQuillin (BMI affiliate)
	Story Behind the Song "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. Lyrics 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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