The meaning of the lyrics of the song "My Lost Lenore" by the artist "Tristania"

In Tristania's song "My Lost Lenore," the lyrical hero mourns the loss of his beloved, Lenore. Her image is shrouded in tragedy and the romanticization of death.

"The promise her raven-black eyes regret" hints at a tragic mistake that led to the loss. Lenore's beauty and the "crimson sky at sunrise" are contrasted with her sorrow, and the "crystal tears" that seek solace in the river create an image of purity and innocence.

The hero is torn between the desire to let his beloved go ("though I leave you") and the inability to come to terms with the loss ("you are in my embrace once more"). "Winter night" is a metaphor for the emotional coldness and grief that envelops the hero. He hides memories, conceals his soul "beneath wings of sorrow," but darkness becomes the only reminder of his lost love.

Lenore's image is idealized: "beauty woven from darkness," "raven-black eyes," "a delightful breeze in the midst of summer." The hero longs to reunite with her even in death ("dance with me in the heavens"), but remains in the "weary, frost-covered night" of reality.

The finale is filled with despair: the hero, a "wanderer lost beneath the white veil of dawn," is doomed to bear the burden of his loss. "No one will know that I have lost you" – loneliness becomes his main trial.