Captain, Looks like it means "slowly" Here is what I found. A rough tranalation of the whole song. - hhttp://buoy.antville.org/stories/561311/ How slowly the tinders smolder On this night of exile? Is this way to live? Or is this A way to waste away? With broken bangles I try to patch my slashed wrists. What is that I had forgotten, In yesterday’s lane, that tonight my feet lead me there again? Oh my feet must be blind! They don’t see, this is the road That leads to that home Where even my shadow Refuses to follow my body! Where even as it is light It is always dark. The tinders smolder. The night is exiled. ---------------------------------------------