Behind the walls, where heat lightning falls

On five-starred map-faced princes

The buffalo man shoots at tin cans

Turns and shouts 'Children, blow your bridges'

In death row halls, where dust men stall

For time's an enemy and a friend

At night, jackals crawl from the cracks in the walls

The salvation is never spoken



Morning sickness breaks the garrison gates

The cavalry cries for treason

The soldier strokes his pony

And goes to shine the Captain's sword

In this young boy's eyes lie reason



But then the Sergeant burst in, says

"Captain, I caught a prisoner, Captain. A prisoner, what ho?

The Captain looks up and says, 'Let her go."

'But Captain, she commands the lightships that patrol the sea around the rainbow tips

Whose bagpipes wail unbroken

She haunts the night and the dawn and the light

On her sounds and words, your cavalry's choking'

The Captain says, 'Have no fear, boys, for what you hear

Because danger can't be spoken'



The war wind crackles and I hear the rustle of shackles

From the stockade door bursts Merlin

His eyes red and swollen, like they've been pushed into the sun

His robe's aflame and burning

He jumps a horse, tries to get away, but gets caught in his irons,

Tangled in his irons, and he falls to the ground, his neck was broken

His spirit rises high into the western sky

The magician lies an empty token



The sergeant walks over and kicks his body and says

"Captain, he's dead, uh, I think he's dead, uh, what should we do with him?'

The Captain says, 'Hang him.'

For those live moments on this earth are well-spent

And I can see his body sure well-bent

It's his magic that must be broken

-ac