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lyrics

Driving through a desert storm
So very many miles from home
My engine gave and I was lost for certain
Then in a flash the beasts they came
With eagle's face and lion's mane
A fortune teller's nightmare winged in shadows
I knew the ground we stood on now was hallowed

A man sat high upon a throne
Of sapphire blue and diamond stone
He gave instructions I could just decipher
"You've read the books they've so revered
Now eat the pages you have feared
And taste the honey, free from expectation
Your parents tempting fate for generations"

We'll sing songs of love then let the rubies fall
Make heat from the ice and find we can't forestall
The meanings that are chained to mortal walls
And fall with gusts of wind
Until our hopes have thinned

I sank into the desert sand
Scorched shattered bodies filled the land
Consumed by storms of greed and rampant wanting
He moved amongst the rocks and stones
Pushed breath into those loose dry bones
But I gulped the dust in deep for fear of treason
The valley was too hot this late in season

We'll sing songs of love then let the rubies fall
Make heat from the ice and find we can't forestall
The meanings that are chained to mortal walls
And fall with gusts of wind
Until our hopes have thinned

Then just as quickly as they came
The man and beasts dissolved away
They evanesced to sky without a warning
But people's wills are short and weak
I never did go back to speak
Or tell another soul there of our junction
Much safer being blind in our dysfunction

We'll sing songs of love then let the rubies fall
Make heat from the ice and find we can't forestall
The meanings that are chained to mortal walls
And fall with gusts of wind
Until our hopes have thinned

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from Ballad of a Canadian Superhero, released December 9, 2011
lyrics and music :: Bri-anne Swan
produced :: Mitch "King Kong" Girio

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Bri-anne Swan Toronto, Ontario

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