Skyclad lyrics

Artist Skyclad
Album(s) Wayward Sons Of Mother Earth

Lyrics

I'll sing to you of days departed
Times when men proud and stouthearted carved their names on history's bloody
Page
The corpse of chivalry long dead
Is turning in his loamy bed indignant at your new 'enlightened' age
White-collared knights at boardroom tables dream their own financial fables
Fight to make their incomes larger--mounted on their 'credit charges.'
Held within the safety of this mundane existence--
Facing endless grey mondays of dull nine to fives
We all climb the social ladder with a dogged persistence
Forging chains we shall carry for the rest of our lives
We cannot see through clothes may maketh man they cannot give us shelter--
On this mortal helter-skelter if our loyalties are torn
Between the values we believe in and the egos we are feeding--
We stand all together naked as the day we were born
And so cast off the lies that are our lives and find the truth within
Skyclad--the veil has lifted
Skyclad--now I see through
Skyclad--your mask of illusion
Skyclad--to the fake that is you
Financial wizards read their spells from filofaxes
Concrete hells of their own making pass for avalon
These men self-made by shrewd investing spend their weekends child-molesting
Lost in 'green-belt' dreams they do no wrong
Your mortgage payment rocket--
Like your blood pressure rising
Executive stresses are the dragons you fight
In your armani armour you are practically shining
So have no code of honour--you must always be right
Just give me a simple life--my tastes are not demanding
And whatever life may hand me I'll accept it with good grace;
For I'm just a simple lad with few ideas about my station
So ale and song will apt suffice to keep me in my place
How can you know the cost of everything yet never see its worth?
If you think because you've paid the piper you should call the tune--
Well think again my friend life is a gain of chance
By fate's command we win or lose
But still retain the right to choose
If we should stumble on--or shed our cares and dance
Skyclad--the veil has lifted
Skyclad--no I see through
Skyclad--your mask of illusion
Skyclad--to the fake that is you
You charge each other for the time and breath it takes to say 'good morning,'
But the truth is slowly dawning--things are getting out of hand
We all pursue our shattered dreams along the roads to our own ruin--
Watch our empires sink and wash away like castles made of sand
And so cast off the lies that are your lives and find the truth within

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