A father robbed by karma
Lost my daughter to the coast
My little girl communed with chaos
Called by the sea, the siren's thirst
Her sobs choked by salt water
Once she fell from the jetty
A place she often played, her early grave
Fate's twisted augury
Like Bable I collapsed to see her death so undeserved
Remorse adorned in mourning jewelry, memento-mori of my curse
Nights spent bent over cello rending out a dry sonata
The discordant melodies disturbs the cycle of Samsara
In the fourth house, Chiron pleads out
A scorpionic family tree
My wife ended her life before this strife
Could strike her like it did me
I thought her lucky, dashed the oil lamps
And threw the candelabra
Lit the whole mansion on fire
Yet in the flames I did not expire
My paramour made me immortal
Forever bound to mortal coil
While her ghost a drowned chimera
Demands I make doll-like companions
As a spectral child, a phantom
She can only touch what's dead
So I let her pick her new companions
From our uninvited guests
Pretty strangers from the outerworld
Become our mannequins
Preserve them as best I can
And polished by my craftsmanship
My eternal debt, deserved
In regret I am immersed
I cannot die, cannot move on
Stuck in the past all hope is gone
A world displaced, frozen in time
Removed from god, all that's divine
Me and my daughter Caroline
And Sheridan all mortified