Prologue

Listen, listen to the sea Feel the water at your feet Listen, listen to the sea Feel the water at your feet This is how the tide behaves The water crests and sinks away We’re swept along an open sea And we are drifting endlessly The tide will rise, the tide will fall And in the end it takes us all We try again to tell the story Good and evil, hell and glory Listen, listen to the sea Feel the water at your feet Listen, listen to the sea Feel the water at your feet Cities built will fall to flood And we will scrape them from the mud The victors write our history By conjuring the enemy We’re at the mercy of the swell It beckons us and bids farewell We build a cradle from our grave And feel it rock with every wave Ebb and flow, the buildings go, the cities go Ebb and flow, the kingdoms go, the empires go Ebb and flow, the reasons go, the seasons go Ebb and flow, the villains go, the heroes go