Unfinished Symphony

Jun - Prologue

Song: The Writing on the Wall

Artist: Long John Teev'Rah

Album: Cobblestone Crossroads, B.U. 6

Genre: Fae Protest

From the north to the south and from sea to sea

Come hearken your ears, children, listen to me

Take heed of the signs that are plain there to see

The dark days are coming, there's been a decree

Posted on ev'ry door that you're no longer free

And if you've got no home, that won't change your fate

The writing's there on the wall

A nation that's forged in blood and in smoke

With fields once ploughed by good honest folk

Now enslaved and hated, burdened by the yoke

Of chains and bonds long ago invoked

Well don't laugh too hard at that cruel joke

For war makes us all slaves, just ask Captain Dan

His name is there on the wall

Across that old ocean a horse gallops fast

Been running since days that have long since been past

Long is the shadow that big steed does cast

And he's lookin' to leap over waters so vast

To knock down our masters' big white holdfast

If he tells you he'll save you, well don't you believe

Remember, remember the wall

Well, some bow to coppers, and some bow to cash

Some bow because they do not want to be rash

And some only bow when they're under the lash

And those who will not bow get burned into ash

Or rise against their masters in a brutal clash

And take up the place of those they made fall

And quickly build a new wall

Well some say that freedom is having a say

And some say that freedom is getting your way

Some want to be safe at the end of the day

Some only find it when they kneel down and pray

But take it from one of the downtrodden Fae

No matter your master, you'll always have one

Unless you tear down all the walls

Sometimes it is scrawled as a threat or a curse

Sometimes things are written that try and coerce

Sometimes it's a portent that times will get worse

Or there to tell you to converse or disperse