For A Kingdom

My love, she waits

Outside the liar's gates

And the dead-eyed boys inside

Hear the dead-eyes girls decide

That there ain't no use in living

When every diamond has been given

Sing a requiem for a kingdom

My love, she laughs

As the days go roaring past

With her heart full of rain

She dances upon the flames

And in the year of the gun

Should you find yourself under a foreign sun

Cry a requiem for a kingdom

My love swims the river

With a knife between her teeth

And a million crows hide the sun

From the suicides beneath

And oh, what a crime

To be dying all of the time

To a requiem for a kingdom

And it must the blade

The circus and the parade

That steals your breath

And loves this land to death

And I don't want your freedom

When the saints are all drunk, can't you hear them

Howl a requiem for a kingdom