Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Renaissance
Canonical path: /renaissance/the-sultan
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Sultan
Read The Sultan lyrics by Renaissance on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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The Sultan
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Sultan king cruel majesty
Ordered that his women die
A single night this for all his wives
Takes his pleasure then their lives
And so for many days with the dawn
The sultan had his way
Wives were put to death
His name on their dying breath
Then one day as the evening came
Sultan sends for him a wife
Choose her well charms I wish to see
Bring her, send her in to me
Then came scheherazade to his side
And her beauty shone
Like a flower grown
Gentle as he'd ever known
Scheherazade bewitched him
With songs of jewelled keys
Princes and of heroes
And eastern fantasies
Told him tales of sultans
And talismans and rings
A thousand and one nights she sang
To entertain her king
She sings, scheherazade, scheherazade, etc
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