A Wild Heart (The Lover) My love for the outdoors A burden in my father's life As I walk through the wild moors Not just a housewife In the woods I met a man All mysterious charm around Here the story of my life began I listened to his voice spellbound This girl with a wild heart there all alone A beauty like finest art that even Venus outshone (The Lover) He talked of his bloodline With traces of royalty Far cousin to the King Divine Bound to an oath of fealty Yet hard was his life he said But more he didn't dare to tell I felt a sense of hidden dread Like living under a spell This girl with a wild heart there all alone I took a vow if our ways might part, carved in a stone This secret life of mine, haunts me from childhood age With such a cruel design, both a physical and mental cage A Fateful Meeting (The Hunter) Even principles of war couldn't stop this man eating beast I tried and failed, it presented so powerful a trial This hunter from the north, still living in denial For after he killed the wolf, the death toll even increased (The Wrtier) Now a part in rural culture and to folklore it belongs From stories in faraway countries to children's bedtime songs "Elle a tant mangé de monde, La bête du Gévaudan!" (The Hunter) After digesting my defeat I spent some time in an inn Drinking local brews There I met this newspaper writer and my life took a fateful spin He told me the latest news (The Writer) Of winter and hell, the only thing he found out there Snow and a cruel wind, the worst of weather he had to bear The steep and forested slopes with treacherous moors and rocky ravines This man from the north now knows what wild in the south really means The prize on the head of this monster attracted more people from all over the land Their horses trampled the fields, and more plunderers we had to withstand The hunter of the north had all but control A contagion of lawlessness Returning empty-handed on every patrol And Versailles now also noticed his failure to impress It crosses eight leagues in an hour he said This lethal enemy in our midst But at the start of July and another girl dead The message came that he was soon to be dismissed Left behind with all this mess Thus were the signs of his latest recess Killing that wolf, regaining his success? Into Darkness "Deep into that darkness peering Long I stood there wondering, hearing, doubting, Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token And the only word there spoken was the whispered word Lenore..." Nights with darkest dreams, madness for all it seems Release me Captured every time I fled, afraid of the terror spread Unleach me The delirium of a madman, cursed or bound by spells Restricted in everything I can, the worst of earthly hells But at last that night I found a breach Ignoring their ambiguous warnings Run away! Fleeing and running as far as I could reach Leaving all these sufferings Run away! Days passed by and leagues I crossed Avoiding public places Run away! 'Til I reached the lands covered with frost Hiding all my fraces Run away!