[00:00.424]Sixteen years[00:04.068]Sixteen banners united over the field[00:10.672]Where the good shepherd grieves[00:14.221]Desperate men, desperate women divided[00:21.175]Spreading their wings neath the falling leaves[00:28.000]Fortune calls[00:30.783]I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace[00:38.438]Merchants and thieves[00:40.282]hungry for power, my last deal gone down[00:45.399]She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born[00:52.135]On midsummers eve, near the tower[00:57.372][01:10.711]The cold-blooded moon[01:13.894]The captain waits above the celebration[01:18.111]Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid[01:25.185]Whose ebony face is beyond communication[01:32.418]The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid[01:39.435]They shaved her head[01:43.071]She was torn between jupiter and apollo[01:47.095]A messenger arrived with a black nightingale[01:53.888]I seen her on the stairs and I couldnt help but follow[02:01.019]Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil[02:07.919][02:23.287]I stumbled to my feet[02:26.000]I rode past destruction in the ditches[02:31.047]With the stitches still mending neath a heart-shaped tattoo[02:37.943]Renegade priests and treacherous young witches[02:45.717]Were handing out the flowers that i'd given to you[02:52.267]The palace of mirrors[02:56.005]Where dog soldiers are reflected[02:59.861]The endless road and the wailing of chimes[03:06.951]The empty rooms where her memory is protected[03:14.284]Where the angels voices whisper to the souls of previous times[03:22.583][03:50.159]She wakes him up[03:53.014]Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking[03:58.071]Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks[04:04.782]Shes begging to know what measures he now will be taking[04:12.344]he's pulling her down and shes clutching on to his long golden locks[04:19.407]Gentlemen, he said[04:22.841]I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes[04:29.989]I've moved your mountains and marked your cards[04:33.630]But eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination[04:41.218]Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards[04:50.218]