Tyler's Stand

I was with the apostate when fell by Parthian hand

I marched with the tyler across this wounded land

Underneath the raven banner with our blood we stained the sand

Brothers in arms betrayed by a fate that craved our final stand

I took my place on the purple plains that bore the hunters fair

Taste our grief, smell our tears (how difficult to face what you've feared)

Salt-laden winds from a coastal bight blew their hatred and despite

Through our hair

Could we be as brothers you and I?

If we had to together could we die?

Would you make your water mine

(I could make my water thine)?

Let us cut our palms and our bloody fingers twine

And it hurts to learn that there are none

Who'd stand for me against all odds

It grieves me so to know my heart

Will one day be the jackal God's

If I could I'd turn back time

Or change my name and change my line

But I am damned to have to face my tyler's stand

We could be of the same chain you and I

If we had to then together we could die

My blood could be thine if you said that yours is mine

We could cut our palms and our bloody fingers twine

Behated not beloved, I swear that I could bear it

If the pain of my existence you would say you fain would share it

Give you all my friendship, all you wanted I would spare

So as not to feel I'm half a sundered pair

We could be of the same chain you and I

If we wanted to then together we could die

My blood could be thine if you said that yours is mine

We could cut our palms and our bloody fingers twine

Hated not beloved, I swear that I could bear it

If the pain of my existence you would say you fain would share it

Give you all my friendship, all you wanted I would spare

So as not to feel I'm half a sundered pair

We could be of the same chain you and I

If we had to the together we could die

My blood could be thine if you said that yours is mine

We could cut our palms and our bloody fingers twine

Hated not beloved, I swear that I could bear it

If the pain of my existence you would say you fain would share it

Give you all my friendship, all you wanted I would spare

So as not to feel I'm half a sundered pair

Could we be of the same chain you and I?

If we had to then together we could die

My blood could be thine if you said that yours is mine

We could cut our palms and our bloody fingers twine

Hated not beloved, I swear that I could bear it

If the pain of my existence you would say you fain would share it

Give you all my friendship, all you wanted I would spare

So as not to feel I'm half a sundered pair

Could we be as brothers you and I?

Could we stand together back to back to die?

Are we not two halves of a greater whole?

Siamese twins joined at the soul

Are we not two halves of a greater whole?

Siamese twins joined at the soul

The path she said that he would walk has been so hard to tread

At times I've felt my life was false, wished that I was dead

How can I tell the call to mass is not my funeral knell?

I fear that I will burn in heaven, for me there is no throne in hell

I've built a wall around myself but through the chinks it shows

That though I try my mouth is dry, lips are chapped, tongue spit-shy

Still this wind shirks not from the fight, easing not it's airy might

Viciously it blows

Could we be as brothers you and I?

If we had to together could we die?

Would you make your water mine

(I could make my water thine)?

Let us cut our palms and our bloody fingers twine

Could we be as brothers you and I?

If we had to then together