Tonart: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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ye young of Hamlyn- - you who know my tune so well,
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Where it beckons you must follow-
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- be it Heaven (be it Hell).
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Forget your mothers grieving as I
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pipe you down the street,
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With a shilling in my pocket- - and the sky beneath my feet.
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Chameleons bask in the 'arc- lite' reflection-
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- awaiting a chance curtain call,
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And here from the wings I have watched them
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and wondered if God does exist
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after all.
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On life's Ferris Wheel all the dreamers
ride free (from the top you can only
go down),
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No- one but yourself is to blame if you pre
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sume to walk upon water then drown.
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Now your bridges are burned-
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- it is time that you learned there is no turning
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All your airs and graces should vacate their
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places for the qualities you lack.
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Though empty vessels made most sound-
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- not one wise word was said,
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Vainglory hunters seek their prey where angels
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fear to tread.
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FOLLOW ME, follow and I will lead,
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With truth that hurts like stick and stone.
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When rats that scuttled ships departed
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Birds of a feather sought their own.
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To make their dreams a lantern
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that outshines the brightest star,
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Turn whispers into battlecries the winds
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shall carry far.
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When hearts shielded by conviction-
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- keeping beats so pure and strong,
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Are at last as one united (a communion of steel- - The Sword of
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Song).
We gathered together as sister and brother
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to dance when the world was abed,
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Until the next dawn in the grey light of
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morning these lambs to the slaughter
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were led
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Out of the shadows these vagabonds congregate
(those who have stuck to their
guns),
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While tinseltown satellites frantically circulate orbiting
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mirror- ball suns.
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I will not play a part in this infantile
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farce- - your offer I decline,
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Building walls of pretension to conceal
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your intentions was just a waste of
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time.
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Though in your life of make- believe
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the best things came for free,
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I trust my plans in the 'capable' hands of a
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shallow fool like thee.
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FOLLOW ME, follow and I will lead,
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With truth that hurts like stick and stone,
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When rats their scuttled
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ships departed
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Birds of a feather sought their own.
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goose that lays the golden
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egg- - I'll sacrifice and bury it,
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If you don't be lieve me watch
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me as upon its grave I spit,
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Worldly treasures have no worth- - but
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self- re spect is beyond price,
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And Hell's the best alternative when faced
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with your fool's paradise.
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Some say I bite the hand that feeds-
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- but to these disillusioned eyes
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'tis sweet revenge to watch it
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bleed (it has only fed me lies)
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The dead horses you were flogging could
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not rise and stand upon its legs,
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Behold the leper- minstrel has been cured and
Outro 1
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