Farewell to Kings
The Bearing
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Down by the water, she lay As the gulls and the herons eyed up their prey But prayer was not on the menu that day 'Cause faith and her had long since parted ways Out to the opening she stared Where Loch Fyne flirted into Atlantic's bed And floating by smoked the pyres of the dead And still their words are ringing in our heads Oh! Sticks and stones Keep breaking brave peoples' bones When they speak out of turn Off! Off with your head Or banished from this land! Haven't we come a long, long way since then? Haven't we come a long, long way since then? Fare-thee-well to Kings Over the valley, she peered To the legions of the Lost on the frontier Rumoured to end the prosperity of the years Their cries are certain to fall on deaf ears Tracing the ridgeline she ran To the nearest of her elders in command And before long the building of a wall began With flags and guns to help them understand Oh! Sticks and stones Keep breaking brave peoples' bones When they speak out of turn Off! Off with your head Or banished from this land! Haven't we come a long, long way since then? Haven't we come a long, long way since then? Fare-thee-well to Kings Oh! Surrounded by the angry throngs We push on through But little acts of kindness And we get knocked out The domino effect from all we say and do Yet funny how the good stuff Is not what we write home about Oh! Most ordinary folk carry on with their lives And do their best to give and receive love and care Yet all we hear tells us that only hatred thrives But then injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere Wide eyed with terror, she froze Disappeared from right under their nose And while the plans for retribution are imposed The voice of dispossession only grows Oh! Sticks and stones Keep breaking brave peoples' bones When they speak out of turn Off! Off with your head Or banished from this land! Haven't we come a long, long way since then? Haven't we come a long, long way since then? Fare-thee-well to Kings
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