Cameras are flattering until they flash The depiction of Kings and queens until the shutter castles Evangelical in nature what our pictures capture Where the greens of your garden meet my pasture
I try to find my way, but only find myself as a knight with no sense of direction Fighting for home, or for throne, the question begs itself Where the answer is another question Intrepid in nature, Why do I play the game without something to wager
And slaves and peasants and kingβs all the same in the end Whilst the keep remains high and grand at the expense of what the treasury lends
Where pigeons can not land and letters bury the foundations And there the queen remains, frivolous with men fascinated by their own incantations In her jewelry and robes, her stallions, her fields, in a glow forged by ignorance and fascination
And here I am all the same, chasing after the same libations