| Lyrics: | Behind the walls, where heat lightning falls
On five-starred map-faced princes
The buffalo
man shoots at tin cans
Turns and shouts 'Children, blow your bridges'
In death row halls,
where dust men stall
For time's an enemy and a friend
At night, jackals crawl from the
cracks in the walls
The salvation is never spoken
Morning sickness breaks the garrison
gates
The cavalry cries for treason
The soldier strokes his pony
And goes to shine the
Captain's sword
In this young boy's eyes lie reason
But then the Sergeant burst in,
says
"Captain, I caught a prisoner, Captain. A prisoner, what ho?
The Captain looks up and
says, 'Let her go."
'But Captain, she commands the lightships that patrol the sea around the
rainbow tips
Whose bagpipes wail unbroken
She haunts the night and the dawn and the
light
On her sounds and words, your cavalry's choking'
The Captain says, 'Have no fear,
boys, for what you hear
Because danger can't be spoken'
The war wind crackles and I
hear the rustle of shackles
From the stockade door bursts Merlin
His eyes red and swollen,
like they've been pushed into the sun
His robe's aflame and burning
He jumps a horse, tries
to get away, but gets caught in his irons,
Tangled in his irons, and he falls to the ground, his
neck was broken
His spirit rises high into the western sky
The magician lies an empty
token
The sergeant walks over and kicks his body and says
"Captain, he's dead, uh, I
think he's dead, uh, what should we do with him?'
The Captain says, 'Hang him.'
For those
live moments on this earth are well-spent
And I can see his body sure well-bent
It's his
magic that must be broken
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