Toll in the Great Death
Oh it's you
Who've known that the mercy shown
Was granted alone
To hide a heart of stone
And it's you
Who take the easy way out
Leave us to pray and shout
At some god long run out
Of our hearts and tongues
To kneel and to bow
Before some old crown
With no actual power
Oh, your throne
Long since overthrown
That crumbling old shrine
To a dream long defiled
And it's you
Who still mean to be
This enlightening being
Of a wisdom unseen
And we'll hold a dream
Though the dream may be old
And since bought and sold
With traitor's gold
And it's you
Who with flowers and bread
And a spike for your head
In ways so wondrous
Welcomed in the plunderous
With debts and bayonets
With flags still wet
With the tears and the sweat
But it's you
Who will likely give none
When all shall give some
And some will give all
Just a blind youth
With everything to lose
But that strange hunger
For knife and noose
And it's you
Who when given the chance
Will break tablets at last
And do away with what's ours
While you hold a dream
Though the dream may be old
And since bought and sold
With traitor's gold
It's a toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Who've known that the mercy shown
Was granted alone
To hide a heart of stone
And it's you
Who take the easy way out
Leave us to pray and shout
At some god long run out
Of our hearts and tongues
To kneel and to bow
Before some old crown
With no actual power
Oh, your throne
Long since overthrown
That crumbling old shrine
To a dream long defiled
And it's you
Who still mean to be
This enlightening being
Of a wisdom unseen
And we'll hold a dream
Though the dream may be old
And since bought and sold
With traitor's gold
And it's you
Who with flowers and bread
And a spike for your head
In ways so wondrous
Welcomed in the plunderous
With debts and bayonets
With flags still wet
With the tears and the sweat
But it's you
Who will likely give none
When all shall give some
And some will give all
Just a blind youth
With everything to lose
But that strange hunger
For knife and noose
And it's you
Who when given the chance
Will break tablets at last
And do away with what's ours
While you hold a dream
Though the dream may be old
And since bought and sold
With traitor's gold
It's a toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
Toll in the great death
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Writer(s): Jérôme Reuter
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