Year of the Horse - Act Four

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[-SCENE ONE-] SHERIFF KING: Thought I died, don't you cry King came high! See you child Dust will rise, black the sky Grow the vine Let her fly A river cuts through the cliff. Safe passage to the village The lizards race back to Sour with his horse, drawn by his power Lance withers like a weed, pushed forward by the need From across the river wide the lizards hiss at him and the child Blanche holds him tight to keep him alive But a shadow falls, when the demon calls The dust awaits. Declare the fates So they charge into the fire, rеady to tear down their lives A crack through thе air! They hiss in fear. Now Sour Senses a change. He'll raise the earth! So Lance Charges across that sea he parts, and Blanche Cries out again when Kaye, her home, is shot! The beasts run mad from Lance's fire Red blood from Kaye falls to the sand Blanche runs to her, to heal her wound, but Lance Pulls her away. He wants his spike, while Rose Staggers towards the tent, her worm. And Sour Conjures the sand inside his mind. A shot! Now Lance, he falls! Shot in the back Behind him; smoke from Blanche's gun [-SCENE TWO-] BLANCHE: Oh momma, you'll be just fine! Lay down your heavy head Oh momma, we'll take a ride, bang bang, and Lance is dead! Oh momma, that good horse stayed, to take you away from here Oh momma, we'll be home soon! Hold me under the moon Now momma, don't close your eyes! I need you to carry me Momma I'm just a child, you are my family Momma, it's getting dark, take my love into your heart Oh momma, oh momma, oh momma! The bodies in the sand, are seeds in his hand Evil rides on the wind. Fire under the skin Dark clouds on the sky. Lance opens one eye! Life to dust, dust come to life He swells, reborn. Quick sand for a storm The shadow of a man come alive again Rose comes to the tent where the world was bent Her noose now a whip, one word on her lips Thunder cracks! The heavens, black The eternal night A tempest of spikes [-SCENE THREE-] DRUNKEN KAYE: I hear those dogs again Come to collect the dead Must be a sign from the gods Telling us we done em' wrong I watched the devil die But now I see his body rise Sand gets into my eyes But I was already blind We tried to pull down the stars Take what was never ours The lead poisons every heart Makes good men come apart I was just a little girl Who took a wrong turn Lived my life in the barrel Shot my way down to hell Those boys we stole away Sour turned them into snakes Their mothers pine and pray While their bodies drift away I watch the last leaf fall I can hear the reaper call My flower in my arms I won't let her come to harm PEGASUS: Born too brave to rot in a grave Take your place in the sand, and make your stand Under these black blood skies, find the stars on high Run to the end of the night. Chase after the light! [-SCENE FOUR-] BLANCHE: After it all came down, I took my breath of air And when the sky came back, I gave the earth my tears I guess old King was right. Rose remembered the name She called him Zazamanc, it must have broke the spell.J Ust a scared old worm, underneath it all He couldn't let her go. His child from the sky Perceval rose through the clouds. Nothing held her back I bet the stars were glad, to see their child again In the womb of the storm, she saved my life again My mother, Drunken Kaye. As I went after the horse She held the last boy back, who tried to pull me down I got her saddle off. They sunk into the gyre Her word put out his fire. It crept back up to the gods And life came back to our home. The water split the sand He was a boy once too, filled with his own boy dreams Pegasus in her guile, gave him too much to hold Give me my little life, and you, my little girl Give me my memories of those who drift away Now the bullets rust, and King rests next to Kaye They gave me to this world. It paid me back with you [-SCENE FIVE-] My green girl Rose of my world From the pain Love again She looks down On us now A light that rides Across the sky