Lyric

Enter the gate of longing

Feel the pain my heart is holding

Endless yearning, memories remain

Brief desire, boundless, like the rain

Autumn wind rises, frost fills the courtyard

Fallen leaves scatter, moonlight grows sharp

A lone lamp still flickers in some distant home

Dreams return a thousand miles, yet leave no echo

Meeting was hard, parting just as cruel

Mist and rain dampen the robe I wore

Who can sever a tender heart?

One thought turns to ash, yet dreams won’t part

Thoughts of you, I dare not speak

Beneath the lamp, our shadows meet in streaks

Longing is a riddle with no key

Across a thousand mountains, it won’t cease to be

If we had never met that day

Life might hold no joy, no dismay

Yet fate was written deep in dreams

Love runs through bones, eternal it seems

In the gate of longing, sorrow dwells

Sent in letters that never tell

Last night the stars shone as before

But you no longer walk the path I adore

Had I known longing binds the mortal world

Better to part when first our paths unfurled

Yet I wish in another life we meet

To hold one true moment, tender and sweet

Yearning is like silent rain

Soaking the heart, turning to pain

After a thousand lonely nights apart

Reunion shines, though fleeting at heart

If time could turn and start anew

I’d walk with you, faithful and true

Endless longing, buried deep inside

Brief memories, in the heart they reside

If we meet again beneath the moonlight

Let the world never pull us from sight

With you I’d solve all, gladly so

Longing and love until dawn’s glow