Away

A knight in shiny armor was out looking for a cup Because he didn't want to grow up A girl says to a boy don't leave me here alone But when he sees her face he's turned to stone And the queen Victoria's crying her eyes out in a mirror Afraid that she has made one last fatal error After all the kings both new and old are dead And the rest of the court has gone to bed Shakespeare's in a corner tierd of thinking up new ways To kill off all the heroes in his plays While the gatekeepers are watching from over the walls To keep the other puppets locked in their golden halls And the magistrate's daughter has run away from home Escaping through the catacombs She asks herself do all roads lead to Rome Or do they all lead away The windmills are stone giants before the minds reprise Barren tombs stand as centuries The starving population's eaten what it's been fed And are chanting off with his head This masquerade of a crusade Has morphed into a funeral parade All the pretty people are applying perceived truth In a battle to reclaim their wasted youth You can wander in the desert finding someone to blame Till all of the scarecrows look the same While they're busy choosing which clothes to wear The girl from the tower has cut off all her hair And there's posers on the steeple singing praises to a lord In hopes of gaining real estate they now can't afford But the preacher won't shut up and they're all getting bored As they waste away If this is the promised land it isn't what I planned Her face is unfamiliar so nearby Take my hand and tell me things that I don't understand Should I turn the other cheek or a blind eye She casts aside her secrets in a heap As someone gives away all the advice they can't keep Reason has taken all the things that it could steal As it sorts through what is and isn't real The last shreds of meaning have been lost in the debris Where all drains empty out into the sea There's nothing left to discern Past the point of no return There wherever there is at last But the moonlight it is fading fast Now we're thinkin bout tomorrow and living in the past And today is so far away