Marzanna Lyrics

MARZANNA

I never saw her in the spring

It was always winter when she came

At the turn of the year

The wildness would appear in her eyes

She would stand there stretching out her hands

To touch the powers of the world

In a strange kind of prayer

With freezing air swirling round

She made bargains with the spirit world

For protections and for the code

To release the candlelight

From the archives of the night

But sometimes all protections fail

And all points of reference disappear

When the air is pure and deep

And the forest is asleep under snow

She was there one minute, gone the next

She reappeared but wasn't now alone

There were dark shapes in the air

And blue fires flared in her eyes

As far as I could tell

There were forces to be released

I was waiting for the call

But it never came, never came at all

Time itself was growing old

The day I searched for her again

Grain rippled in the fields

And firebirds were soaring in the sky

I found her sitting in her room

Coffee on her table growing cold

She was silent for a while

Then said her time would come again

When the winter season had returned

And all her wrongs had been redeemed

Then her finger idly drew a line

In the dust on the window sill