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Changing Of The Guards
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Patti Smith
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Sixteen years
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Sixteen banners united over the field
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Where the good shepherd grieves
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Desperate men
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Desperate women divided
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Spreading their wings
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'Neath the falling leaves
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Fortune calls
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I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace
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Merchants and thieves, hungry for power
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My last deal gone down
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She's smelling sweet
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Like the meadows where she was born
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On midsummer's eve
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Near the tower
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The cold-blooded moon
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The captain waits above the celebration
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Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
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Whose ebony face
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Is beyond communication
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The captain is down but still believing
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That his love will be repaid
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They shaved her head
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She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
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A messenger arrived
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With a black nightingale
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I seen her on the stairs
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And I could not help but follow
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Follow her down past the fountain
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Where they lifted her veil
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I stumbled to my feet
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I rode past destruction in the ditches
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With the stitches still mending
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'Neath a heart-shaped tattoo
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Renegade priests
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And treacherous young witches
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Were handing out the flowers
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That I'd given to you
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The palace of mirrors
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Where dog soldiers are reflected
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The endless road
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And the wailing of chimes
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The empty rooms
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Where her memory is protected
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Where the angels' voices whisper
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To the souls of previous times
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She wakes him up
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Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
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Near broken chains
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Mountain laurel and rolling rocks
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She's begging to know
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What measures now he will be taking
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He's pulling her down and she's clutching
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On to his long golden locks
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‽Gentlemenâ€, he said
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‽I don't need your organization
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I've shined your shoes
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I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
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But Eden is burning"
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Either brace yourself for elimination
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Or else your hearts must have the courage
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For the changing of the guards
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Peace will come
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With tranquility and splendor
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On the wheels of fire
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But will bring us no reward
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When her false idols fall
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And cruel death surrenders
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With its pale ghost retreating
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Between the King and the Queen of Swords
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