Off the Lane
Off the lane is one of the songs that composes the main arc of related songs in my album The Underliving. In essence it's the contrary song of " through the long way", if through the long way is about not taking unsafe shortcuts, off the lane is the bitter and dark wailing song of someone that has been misled (we can presume that by the Underliving if not by her own) off the lane into the dark woods and that enthralled by the twisted shapes of the branches have got lost to dissapear in the forest. Very ghostly and strange, Off the lane is a "warning" song but there's something of decadent beauty in the fatal fate of the "lost" girl singing it that has probably become herself another kind of creature.
© 2011 Priscilla Hernandez
Music and Lyrics by Priscilla Hernandez
A warning for a curious girl...
I got lost off the lane
where the woodlands get dark
and skeleton hands
hang from bare and twisted branches
swaying in a sinister dance
they swirl, they swirl
knotting their shadows over me spiraling
Call me! Call me from the Dark!
oh I shall find no rest until you come!
Call me! Call me by my name!
that mossy stone
shall never be my grave!
I just followed their trail
into their hidden lair
Oh broken heart
come and play with us -they said
We can gather all your shards -they sung
Join them so you can feel complete
a whole again
All you must do is to decline
the light of sun
Oh catch me! catch me now!
don't let me fall
into a world I'll never be
I never really was
Tangle me and lift me in your arms
Shelter me and cloak me
with your gnarled dead boughs
now that I'm lost
off the lane
A warning for all curious girls
led astray
A warning for all curious girls
led astray
I should have gone through the long way
You should have gone through the long way
No shortcut is safe
Una advertencia para todas las niñas curiosas
Hmm
Me perdí al salir del sendero
donde los bosques se tornan oscuros
y manos de esqueleto
cuelgan de las ramas torcidas y desnudas
que se balancean en una danza siniestra
se mecen, se arremolinan
anudando sus sombras sobre mí
haciendo espirales
¡Llamadme! ¡Llamadme desde lo oscuro!
oh no he de encontrar reposo hasta que vengáis
Llamadme, llamadme por mi nombre
que esa piedra musgosa
jamás ha de ser mi tumba
Hmmm
Yo simplemente el rastro de ellos
hacia su oculta guarida
"Oh corazón roto, ven a jugar con nosotros"
-dijeron
Nosotros podemos unir todos tus fragmentos
-cantaron
"unirlos para que te sientas completa, un todo otra vez.
Lo único que debes hacer es rehusar la luz del sol"
Oh cogedme, cogedme ahora
no me dejéis caer
en un mundo en el que nunca estaré
en el que nunca estuve
Enredadme y alzadme en vuestros brazos
Cobijadme y cubridme con vuestras
ramas muertas y retorcidas
Estoy perdida fuera del sendero
Una advertencia a todas las niñas curiosas
que se pierden
Una advertencia a todas las niñas curiosas
que se pierden
Yo debería haber ido por el camino largo
Deberías haber ido por el camino largo
Ningún atajo es seguro
