The Siege

Lyrics

[Verse 1] They are laying the siege The queen has ordered the walls rebuilt Stock of provisions and stock of skills They're taking their leave Friends abandoned in times of plenty Poisoning the beautiful moat with envy [Chorus] And I had a dream of a lost little girl Who danced in lace and lightning white pearls The dizzying circles that blurred my sight As we looked to the tower where she appeared each night [Verse 2] Now the siеge is in force The candlе, the torch for the hungry men Hovering like drones in the poisoned pen That intimate course Sucking the power from her lessening health Making her feel guilt for all of her wealth [Chorus] And I had a dream of a beautiful woman Who gave all her strength in the birth of a son The fullness she shone it was reassuring Her venomous anger restrained for once [Verse 3] Now the siege, it is over The walls are in the ruins of the harpers' tunes They all run coughing from the smoke filled rooms And where are they, where? The silver's been plundered and stripped to the bone The well has run dry, there is a cold hearthstone [Chorus] And I had a dream that I saw it all The old woman in darkness who screams in the hall What little she has now is what little she had then They all want it over though they know how it ends