Sixteen years
  Sixteen banners united over the field
  Where the good shepherd grieves
  Desperate men, desperate women divided
  Spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves.
    Fortune calls
  I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace
  Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
  She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
  On midsummer's eve near the tower.
    The cold-blooded moon
  The captain waits above the celebration
  Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
  Whose ebony face is beyond communication
  The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
    They shaved her head
  She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
  A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
  I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
  Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
    I stumbled to my feet
  I rode past destruction in the ditches
  With the stitches still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo
  Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
  Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
    The palace of mirrors
  Where dog soldiers are reflected
  The endless road and the wailing of chimes
  The empty rooms where her memory is protected
  Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
    She wakes him up
  Forty-eight hours later the sun is breaking
  Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
  She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
  He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
  Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
  I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
  But Eden is burning either brace yourself for elimination
  Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
    Peace will come
  With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
  But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
  And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
  Between the King and the Queen of Swords.