Visitation At Fort Horn Lyrics

Behind the walls where heat lightning fallsOn five starred gnat-faced princessThe buffalo man shoots at the tin catsTurns and shouts children, blow your bridgesOn death row halls where dustmen stallWhere times an enemy and a friendAt night jackals crawl from the cracks in the wallsAnd salvation is never spokenMorning sickness breaks the garrison gateThe cavalry cries for treasonThe soldier strokes his pony and goes to shine the captains swordIn this young boys eyes lie reasonAnd the sergeant bursts in and cries I caught a prisoner, captain,A prisoner, what ho !The captain looks up and says let her goBut captain, she patrols the light ships that patrol the sea aroundThe rainbow tips, whose bagpiper wail unbrokenShe haunts the night and the dawnin lightOn her sounds and words your cavalry chokin The captain says have no fear, boysFor what you hearBecause danger cant be spoken The whirlwind crackles and I hear the rustle of shacklesFrom the stockade door bursts merlinHis eyes red, and swollen, like theyve been pushed into the sunHis robes aflame and burninHe jumps a horse, tries to get awayBut he gets caught in his eyes, tangled in his eyesHe falls to the ground, his neck is brokenHis spirit rises high in the western skyThe magician lies an empty tokenThe sergeant walks over and kicks his bodyAnd says captain, hes dead - what shall we do with him ? The captain says hang himFor though his live moments on this earth are well spentAnd I can se his body is sure well bentIts magic that must be broken Now night cradles lowThe penniless weed plays wrath felt in the captains cornerWith anvil spread wide, the captain glidesEach blow to scare her, not to hurt herShe spits what truth at the captains bootsBut he holds his rage suspendedThe sergeant comes in stinkin of soldiers ginAnd cries captain, the storm she blows unendingOh and the lightning cracked and the sky was hackedBy dagger rain it was tornAnd the yard was charged into a raging seaAnd the captain ran crazilyFor the first time in his life, in the captains heartFear was bornThe captain storms out on the stoop, panic strikesHe sees merlins hung body stretched by the neckSilhouetted on his doorThe sergeant screams captain, look high, look to the sky !Some whirling, swirling emission ...But the captain falls to his knees crying silent pleascause he knows, he knows, and he thinks to himselfA magician...


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