Changing Of The Guards

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Sixteen years
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Sixteen banners united over the 
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field
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Where the good shepherd grieves
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Desperate men, desperate women 
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divided
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Spreading their wings 'neath 
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falling leaves


   [Verse 2]
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Fortune calls
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I stepped forth from the shadows 
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to the marketplace
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Merchants and thieves, hungry for 
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power, my last deal gone down
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She's smelling sweet like the 
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meadows where she was born
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On midsummer's eve near the tower


   [Verse 3]
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The cold-blooded moon
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The captain waits above the 
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celebration
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Sending his thoughts to a beloved 
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maid
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Whose ebony face is beyond 
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communication
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The captain is down but still 
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believing that his love will be 
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repaid


   [Bridge]
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   [Verse 4]
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They shaved her head
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She was torn between Jupiter and 
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Apollo
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A messenger arrived with a black 
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nightingale
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I seen her on the stairs and I 
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couldn't help but follow
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Follow her down past the fountain 
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where they lifted her veil


   [Verse 5]
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I stumbled to my feet
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I rode past destruction in the 
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ditches
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With the stitches still mending 
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beneath a heart-shaped tattoo
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Renegade priests and treacherous 
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young witches
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Were handing out the flowers that 
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I'd given to you


   [Verse 6]
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The palace of mirrors
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Where dog soldiers are reflected
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The endless road and the wailing 
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of chimes
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The empty rooms where her memory 
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is protected
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Where the angel's voices whisper to
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 the souls of previous times


   [Verse 7]
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She wakes him up
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Forty-eight hours later the sun is 
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breaking
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Near broken chains, mountain 
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laurel and rolling rocks
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She's begging to know what 
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measures he now will be taking
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He's pulling her down and she's 
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clutching on to his long golden 
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locks


   [Bridge]
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   [Verse 8]
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Gentlemen, he said
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I don't need your organization,
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I've shined your shoes, I've moved 
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your mountains and marked your cards
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But Eden is burning either brace 
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yourself for elimination
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Or else your hearts must have the 
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courage for the changing of the 
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guards


   [Verse 9]
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Peace will come
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With tranquillity and splendor on 
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the wheels of fire
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But will bring us no reward when 
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her false idols fall
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And cruel death surrenders with its
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Pale ghost retreating,Between the 
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King and the Queen of Swords


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