Fucked Up - Year of the Horse - Act Three lyrics

-SCENE ONE- (The posse has retreated to
Their tents to sleep
While Blanche is awoken by a strange visitor
Meanwhile, Perceval is the honoured guest
At a moon ceremony) bLANCHE:
Mother, there’s a darkness coming
In through the window please hold my hand
Keep me safe from the shadow!
Don’t leave me cold
Bring me back from the meadow
Don’t let me go alone! Under the night
Dreams filled the tents like starlight
Blanche looked on by the fire
Was the Great Swan
While Kaye and the boys lay as dead
Cygnus flew into their heads
She held them all night long
And sang her wicked songs
Under the Queen, Perceval’s night grew green
The witches danced up to their
Moon in a trance the horse was crowned
They spread their flowers around
Painted her skin to let the goddess back in
BLANCHE: Mother, there’s a darkness coming
In through the window please hold my hand
Keep me safe from the shadow!
Don’t leave me cold
Bring me back from the meadow
Don’t let me go alone!
The swan screamed at the boys in their dream!
Inside her dome
She told them to ride back home
Lance held his awful spike to
His heart all night
Next to his gun, he dreamed of scorpions
A DESERT ROSE:
Look at the sky, you are her mislaid child!
The heavens weep while you are
Not in their keep
Flowers rose from the sand to the cosmos
Kingdoms on earth, by a holy birth bLANCHE:
Mother, there’s a darkness coming
In through the window please hold my hand
Keep me safe from the shadow!
Don’t leave me cold
Bring me back from the meadow
Don’t let me go alone! -SCENE TWO-
(Everyone wakes up the next morning in the
Ashes from a night of flames)
Lance awoke to an uncanny shape in the smoke
From the dream, to the morning’s rise
Was the Swan, arched by the fire!
Perceval, last night ’s celestial
Woke up to an empty day
The witches had drifted away
Hanged Rose, in the dust with her leg broke
Saw smoke in the distance
She will have her vengeance!
King Sour, the worm in his tented tower
Put a spike into his flame
New fumes for an old game
Drunken Kaye, wished last nights drink away
A swan looked into her eye
A haunting, under a blue sky
Little Blanche, watched from inside her tent
A kind bloom in a bad land
Blood fell on the white sand
The swan hit the earth! Shot
By Lance in the heart
Blanched touched the still-warm corpse inside
She grew a thorn
A cactus came to life, on Perceval’s trail
And swiped sour moaned in delight perceval’s
Neck filled with spines pEGASUS:
They try to pull you down they
Want to watch you drown
And live behind their bands
Remember what you are!
Don’t live your life in pain
Get up and try again
Bring your heart to the blade, child
Don’t be afraid
Crack the sorcery of Sour’s monstrosity!
Perceval run free, come back to me
Look up at the moon, child
You will be home soon!
Daughter of the sky, mother light divine
-SCENE THREE- (After the killing of Cygnus
Lance leads the posse back into the
Wasteland in pursuit of Perceval
Where they make a pivotal discovery)
DRUNKEN KAYE:
There are roses in the trees why
Are they looking at me?
I can still hear those dogs all
Of our water is gone
Black smoke from his cigar
Poison drips down from the stars
We left poor King to rot just
Like we did that swan
This ain’t no place for a young girl
I never told you about the world
What some men will do
To leave the rest of us to ruin
The gods don’t abide i fear
I won’t come home alive
Who’ll be there to comfort you? When
You learn what people do
Don’t see no rivers in the sand
Just blood all over my hands
I must be going mad inside my soil went bad
They sent your father away
Left you with Drunken Kaye
I brought you into this mess
I’ll get you out again
The spike glows like the moon
Because he knows
He can smell fear that fucking horse is near
Blood drips down her neck, like a kiss
The pain burns like a love you never earned
Against the cliff, they see the horse
Astride a rift with no place to go but to
Run like only the wild know
Out comes the rope
To choke that horse’s hope
When the leash pulls
Men come to hunt like wolves
When the sun sets
Evil comes to collect on debts
To find the light
The good must spread like a vine
Shots are fired she looks back into the gyre
The hounds of vengeance will stalk her
Down to hell before they stop
Then to hell they’ll ride
Right off the cliffside
The pure can’t be destroyed she
Jumps into the void! -SCENE FOUR-
(Perceval has disappeared over the
Edge on the cliffside
Lance and the posse make a deadly bargain)
Little Blanche afraid she’s pressed her
Rose tight to her heart
And watched as Lance’s rifle led the posse
Over the cliff after that horse
‘Take the spike and press it to
Her skin, ’ he said, ‘go after her’
The posse cried ‘we’ll die, ’ they said
But Kaye told Lance ‘just keep my girl alive’
Her mother’s bargain left her on
The ledge with Lance alone
The madman made them jump after the horse
They all watched take her leap
Her skin like steel
The cactus spines erupted from her neck
Like bullets, while her body
Rose into the air, as ravens fly
Then landed like soft rain upon
The desert floor below while just behind
The men upon their horses fell
As corpses would and died
Lance’s skin was crawling like a
Snake under the sand he laughed
While Blanche thought of her Kaye who
Had died to save her life
Lance grabbed Blanche then while she cried
And put her on his horse
They rode to find a safe way down
His black blood missed it's spike
A cry came up from Sour’s tent
As he sensed what had transpired
Those men had leapt into their death
While Perceval escaped
He took a scale out of the sand
And put it in his fire
And something foul emerged out of the
Pile made from their death! PEGASUS:
The posse rose from the dead with
Sour’s plague in their heads
From a scale in the sand
Lizards at his command!
Kaye and the boys’ new
Skin Zazamanc’s saurians
One put the spike to the horse
To bleed her heavenly force
Crack the sorcery of Sour’s monstrosity!
Perceval run free, come back to me
Look up at the moon, child
You will be home soon!
Daughter of the sky, mother light divine
-SCENE FIVE-
(Bloody Lance grabs Blanche and the unlikely
Pair tear off along the cliffside
Lance is desperate to retrieve
Perceval, and more importantly
His scorpion tail
While Blanche detects a weakness in him)
Bloody Lance and the child
Ride into the night
The strung man she knows that
He needs his spike
Lizard Kaye pulls the hobbled
Horse towards Sour
The dark mage sit's and wait's
For the final hour
Hanged Rose stands up on a broken leg
She’ll find him and make him beg
A young witch in a cactus with gleaming eyes
Makes Lance twitch
And gives Blanche a splinter from the sky
Lance bleeds from his ear without his venom
Blanche takes the leads she’ll ride
Them into the end