A) Prince Rupert Awakes

A: Prince Rupert Awakes



Farewell the temple master's bells

His kiosk and his black worm seed

Courtship solely of his word

With Eden guaranteed

For now Prince Rupert's tears of glass

Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed

Scar the sacred tablet of wax

On which the Lizards feed



Wake your reason's hollow vote

Wear your blizzard season coat

Burn a bridge and burn a boat

Stake a Lizard by the throat



Go Polonius or kneel

The reapers name their harvest dawn

All your tarnished devil's spoons

Will rust beneath our corn

Now bears Prince Rupert's garden roam

Across his rain tree shaded lawn

Lizard bones become the clay

And there a swan is born



Wake your reason's hollow vote

Wear your blizzard season coat

Burn a bridge and burn a boat

Stake a Lizard by the throat



Gone soon Piepowder's moss-weed court

Round which upholstered Lizards sold

Visions to their leaden flock

Of rainbows' ends and gold

Now tales Prince Rupert's peacock brings

Of walls and trumpets thousand fold

Prophets chained for burning masks

And reels of dreams unrolled...



B: Bolero - The Peacock's Tale



(instrumental)



C: The Battle of Glass Tears



I) Dawn Song



Night enfolds her cloak of holes

Around the river meadow

Old moon-light stalks by broken ploughs

Hides spokeless wheels in shadow

Sentries lean on thorn wood spears

Blow on their hands, stare eastwards



Burnt with dream and taut with fear

Dawn's misty shawl upon them

Three hills apart great armies stir

Spit oat and curse as day breaks

Forming lines of horse and steel

By even yards march forward



Ii) Last Skirmish



(instrumental)



Iii) Prince Rupert's Lament



(instrumental)



D: Big Top



(instrumental)