Wine-Dark Sea Video (MV)

You were a famous foreign novel
In a language I couldn't read
Still I couldn't look away from the symbols on your pages
Cuz in you I saw pieces of me

I took you home, a first edition
Leather-bound and golden leaved
As I skimmed you every night, in your margins I would write
The tale I thought your letters could weave

A sweet and tragic romance
Lovers separated by the sea
Who face the ocean's anger
To prove their love was always meant to be

As I sank into your pages
Floating on each enigmatic line
Those two lovers in my head, braved the ocean dread
To finally meet each other in the night

Yet when they came together
Their hearts could find no comfort in that place
The truth of each lover
Was nothing like the dreams that they had chased

And when I found a good translation
My chance to know the truth within your leaves
Just imagine my surprise, to open you and find
And annotated history of the Holy Roman Empire
Are you kidding me?

I built an archetype around you
A fable from the very start
An image without truth, just my idea of you
An effigy to cradle my heart

I took you home
I should have known