This jam is inspired in part, if not completely by the classic male characters of Dark Shadows, the 1960s, 70s Gothic soap opera. The actors, predominately male, captivate and seduce us with their in tune and gentlemanly qualities that seem few and far between in the present. We feel one with the mysticism and dark secrets they have carried to the future that awaken the past in this song. This is the first track Magda Meringue wrote completely together.
lyrics
I feel deceit fooling all my senses.
My stocking feet slowly tiptoe from the present.
My voice is weak, my mind's a stranger to me.
This feels like a dream, the kind where you can't see a thing.
Whispers in the wind, branches on the shutters,
I smell burning cherry wood from underneath my covers.
Peaking through the sheets I think I finally can see,
Translucent as the moonlight, a figure drawing near to me.
The look he gave me pierced my eyes and my whole body through.
His mood wasn't brusque or brisk; how uncommon for a modern man!
Without a single world said, the thought just came into my head.
He's from another time...
I'm in love with a man from the past.
I'm in love with a man from the past.
I'm in love with a man from the past.
I'm in love with the past.
No one can convince me that he isn't here I see him right in front of me.
Dripping candles burning, I am not concerned with thoughts of where I should be.
All I need is him now, we are locked away in a hidden room in the east wing.
I'm in love with the past.
It all comes down to this.
He is not my captor.
I go with him willingly; I've never been an actor.
He hears me say, "my past is fading away..."
The eyes of the man from the past, they seem to agree with me.
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