The Emperor's Ghost

Take me back my sweetest friend
 I will never let you go
 There was a time when I was alone
 Please don't let me go
 You sang me a lonesome song
 In the cherry blossom field
 The pedals of yesterday
 Rain down on us still
 The frozen lake oh how it dreams
 Of a warmer sun
 Atop the mountains we would sit
 And read words of love
 The fire in the lighthouse
 Promises to burn
 Return to me the clouds would say
 In the sullen sky
 Take me back to where the rivers run wild
 Under the trees where the pheasants cry
 In the meadows we would toss and turn
 Where the relics and ruins were left to burn
 Where the emperor's ghost came regal and proud
 And his crown was tilted to one side
 And he sat on his snow covered throne and cried
 And he wondered why
 Oh how he wondered why...