[00:09.05]Sixteen years
[00:12.15]Sixteen banners united over the field
[00:19.70]Where the good shepherd grieves
[00:25.10]Desperate men, desperate women divided
[00:32.27]Spreading their wings ’neath the falling leaves
[00:33.27]
[00:42.40]Fortune calls
[00:46.35]I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace
[00:51.51]Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
[00:59.84]She’s smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
[01:07.02]On midsummer’s eve, near the tower
[01:11.09]
[01:30.00]The cold-blooded moon
[01:32.47]The captain waits above the celebration
[01:35.87]Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
[01:40.54]Whose ebony face is beyond communication
[01:52.17]The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
[01:59.36]
[02:00.15]They shaved her head
[02:09.81]She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
[02:13.11]A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
[02:14.13]I seen her on the stairs and I couldn’t help but follow
[02:23.25]Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
[02:27.14]
[02:46.18]I stumbled to my feet
[02:49.83]I rode past destruction in the ditches
[02:55.53]With the stitches still mending ’neath a heart-shaped tattoo
[02:59.47]Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
[03:06.50]Were handing out the flowers that I’d given to you
[03:15.73]
[03:18.07]The palace of mirrors
[03:21.08]Where dog soldiers are reflected
[03:22.81]The endless road and the wailing of chimes
[03:29.80]The empty rooms where her memory is protected
[03:37.89]Where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times
[03:45.81]
[04:00.91]She wakes him up
[04:03.82]Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
[04:06.66]Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
[04:15.45]She’s begging to know what measures he now will be taking
[04:23.88]He’s pulling her down and she’s clutching on to his long golden locks
[04:31.74]
[04:32.90]Gentlemen, he said
[04:35.55]I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes
[04:43.86]I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
[04:50.17]But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
[04:55.97]Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
[05:02.26]
[05:18.10]Peace will come
[05:21.60]With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
[05:30.68]But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
[05:35.64]And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
[05:48.21]Between the King and the Queen of Swords
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[06:06.06]end