[00:00.424]Sixteen years
[00:04.068]Sixteen banners united over the field
[00:10.672]Where the good shepherd grieves
[00:14.221]Desperate men, desperate women divided
[00:21.175]Spreading their wings neath the falling leaves
[00:28.000]Fortune calls
[00:30.783]I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace
[00:38.438]Merchants and thieves
[00:40.282]hungry for power, my last deal gone down
[00:45.399]She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
[00:52.135]On midsummers eve, near the tower
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[01:10.711]The cold-blooded moon
[01:13.894]The captain waits above the celebration
[01:18.111]Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
[01:25.185]Whose ebony face is beyond communication
[01:32.418]The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
[01:39.435]They shaved her head
[01:43.071]She was torn between jupiter and apollo
[01:47.095]A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
[01:53.888]I seen her on the stairs and I couldnt help but follow
[02:01.019]Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
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[02:23.287]I stumbled to my feet
[02:26.000]I rode past destruction in the ditches
[02:31.047]With the stitches still mending neath a heart-shaped tattoo
[02:37.943]Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
[02:45.717]Were handing out the flowers that i'd given to you
[02:52.267]The palace of mirrors
[02:56.005]Where dog soldiers are reflected
[02:59.861]The endless road and the wailing of chimes
[03:06.951]The empty rooms where her memory is protected
[03:14.284]Where the angels voices whisper to the souls of previous times
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[03:50.159]She wakes him up
[03:53.014]Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
[03:58.071]Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
[04:04.782]Shes begging to know what measures he now will be taking
[04:12.344]he's pulling her down and shes clutching on to his long golden locks
[04:19.407]Gentlemen, he said
[04:22.841]I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
[04:29.989]I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
[04:33.630]But eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
[04:41.218]Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
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