Cloudcry Songbook

"Dreams From a Past Life" (an aria from the "Fateful Rebirth")
Sitting bored on my bed one dusk,
half the beaded curtain peeled back.
In no mood to awaken yet no mood to sleep,
clothes half-worn and eyes half-slack.
A sudden gust of wind pushes forth the boat,
in dreams a war with the borisin we wage.
Knife in hand, black and red horses leap on,
Alongside my husband's warship, in fight I engage.
Two twittering orioles land on their branch,
with karma past doth this life's grief cast.
Ten times reborn, with all its love and hate,
how hard can one take of a husband lost.
Gazing up I now see daylight through that verdigris,
those past loves and past lives seen only in reveries.

"Eternal Regrets of A High Elder" (an aria from the "Dragontooth Tales")
Dragons and demons, through thick and thin
Scattered upon a cold morning wind
Sorry you too are suffering

Dragons and demons, through thick and thin
Aimlessly our glory sets out to spin
will I ever see you again?

Dragons and demons, through thick and thin
Quaffing wine lustily as the moon grins
How many times must we be buried again?

Dragons and demons, through thick and thin
Six hundred years
of dreaming within