Fucked Up - Year of the Horse - Act Two lyrics

-SCENE ONE-
(The posse ambles aimlessly under a hot sun
Through the vast wasteland
After the absconding Perceval
Who is nowhere to be found) kAYE:
Ramble under the sun, girl
And let your fresh head run
Water came to a drip fold the
Sky down into this trip fifty paces behind
That old swan came in their minds
Veiled inside a mirage, Queen Cygnus
Born of the stars
She opened up her wings now the
Gods are pulling your strings
Did you see ’em with your own eye
Or is your whole world a liе?
Got no water left to drink
Got no thoughts left to think
Whеn you climbed up outta that womb
You knew it would be your tomb
Vipers waiting in the sand
Under the spell of Zazamanc!
Bloody rif les in every hand
A bullet ready for every man
Spirit's rise, then disappear
You never see the thing you fear
Immortal constellations curse terminations
Unto the earth! Never trust your own eyes
’cause the devil wears a disguise
See the world like a child see
The witchcraft and the wild
Out in the barren land
A Rose pushed up through the sand
Like a fire split the wood
One eyes opened under her hood
You start to forget who you are
What are we doing out this far?
Malevolent eyes are watching me
A spiteful sun melts my sanity
Double visions haunting you
Break yourself back into two
Cast a shadow from each side one to press on
And one to die! -SCENE TWO-
(Old Sheriff King limps around his settlement
Of tattered tents and drying fish
Next to a river
Deep into the wasteland from the distance
Perceval approaches the settlement)
SHERIFF K ING:
I watched that horse come back
A thousand years stuck in my little
Lump of earth that cracked
Another neck, another snap
But I watched her come back
I am the King, she is the Zodiac
I am the loved and lorn
Under my crown of thorns
Drink deep now from the horn!
The seed becomes the branch
Go find my little Blanche
Go watch them witches dance
You gotta take your chance
They ran King out of town
A poison dripped out from his fangs
That little worm called Sour!
He stole a holy power
And now the feeble cower
But not my little flower
They clamped your saddle on
Lance got that scorpion took
That to cripple me
Just fish for King to eat
Stole me up from my sweet
Go find her just the same
You let her call your name!
A minute lasts a day
I watch the sun set on a
World that washed the good away
One bullet got my name
But King ain’t gonna run
I sit and let ’em come! Remember who you are
Shine like the brightest star
We hang our heads so low
Wonder where’d the light go
You’ll hear an angel call go
Where the good shine falls
Mother wait's for us all pEGASUS:
Follow the water down
Find the root in the ground
A holy seed from the earth
Then push up through the dirt
There is a path to the sky
Where two rivers align
Don’t let them take you again
Try to remember your name!
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- (The posse comes to a river
And finds a great horse on the far bank)
On, the posse rides a river comes beside
Out, the sun cries deep, the sand bites
Calls the desert wide to swallow men inside
Nowhere for them to hide
Scared to look behind words have gone dry
KAYE: Can we make respite?
Take a little light while the heat is high
On the other side a great horse, gone wild
Crowned in ant lers pride
Herbs and flowers, dried
It fills Lance’s eye holds his rope t ight
To break the feral giant
Make the fierce pliant a ring of rope flies
By the neck, plied down comes the sky
Freedom was a lie
He grasps his glowing spike
Plunges it deep to her thigh
Shoots his old mare good-night
And takes a god to ride only the cruel smile
When the pure are defiled blanche asks why
The horse had to die kAYE:
They make us pick sides just to survive
Now don’t you cry you just abide
-SCENE FOUR- (At nightfall
Perceval comes across another stream
Touched by dark magic
Meanwhile, in his tent Sour
Conjures a malevolent spell
On the same river the Hanged Man
Now Hanged Rose
Struggles to undo her binds perceval is
Helped by an unlikely ally)
The valley wakes to night
Another river quakes with spite
Between Perceval’s way to rest
The unholy forces and the forest
Dark evil rushes ’round the tent
Perceval pushes further into descent
She needs safe passage down to sleep
He feeds on righteous blood let to seep
Into the rivers hold she creeps
Dark fingers quiver up from the deep
Came to pull down, to drown, come the hands
Shadows grown by Sour’s command
Across the Wasteland lays the Hanged Man
St ill bound to hand but life is strong than
The hateful coil which st
Rangles the bough up
From the soil a new rose to grow
As the river bones pull the horse t ight
Does the sky explode to points of light
Hear Corvus call her veiled sprites Come the
Ravens down through their black night!
Now beaks hone
And pick away the flesh now Sour
Moans as his hands thresh
Through the blood and water come to rest
The horse is saved to recommence
Sour pulls his hans from his fire
While blazing talons paint the night
To the forest Perceval proceeds
In the desert born is a new seed
The soil takes
But also gives the toil makes
Us fight to live
Push through the rot ’t il your last breath
Life protects from the pull of death
-SCENE FIVE- (At dusk, the Posse arrives
At Sheriff King’s settlement
And demands answers)
On the winding t rail, visions come to mind
Colours start to run, horizons fall apart
St ill the swan is there, just a ways beyond
Has it been hours or days since
We were sent by Sour?
They come to Sheriff’s camp
Where death hangs in the air
Where the horse has been
Searching for the source
The King will rise through dust
Kaye won’t meet his eyes
Old hollow bones and meat demented and alone
SHERIFF K ING:
I see that rose you got your momma
She don’t know you brave enough to see you
Gonna take your saddle off!
King whispered to Blanche kAYE:
Don’t you chat to her
Kaye looked at K ing and spat kAYE:
Tell, has the horse come through?
The sun was going low lance
Blew a plume of smoke
King’s night was sett ing soon
One single bead of sweat
Each hand held a gun kAYE:
Where’s the mare? Kaye yelled
The constellation’s heir
Has it come this way?
King only spoke to Blanche kING
Their world is not your yoke
Rose, push up through the rot
They looking out for you
When they call her name
His empire will fall!
Bad men will face a fire won’t
Be nothing left to chase kAYE
Stop talking to that girl! No
Sense be found on you
They pinned him rough to ground
Lance had seen enough lance shot K ing
Blanche cried out spent his blood
Now dark fell stuck his gun
At her heart took the rose
From her lapel men kill men
Flesh for the soil then by night
Devils crawl out on the t rail
Snarling dogs tracked them down
By their gods the hanged man
Broke her bonds her roots rose
From her soil perceval
Crossed the creek met a witch
In her woods -SCENE SIX-
(With the help of Covus’ legions
Perceval is able to cross the stream
On the other side, she is met
By a young Desert Rose
And led into a dark forest
Meanwhile the Posse is hounded
By a new enemy)
The witch took her by the lead dESERT ROSE:
Let’s go get you something to eat
They walked through the forest green apples
Grew where none had been
The posse rode through a
Mystery eyes were watching, or so it seemed
Behind them, the Shadow Dogs snarled and
Screamed dust and ghosts
And blood, and weeds
The witch girl became a child she held the
Moon in the wink of her eyes
Beyond, they heard a great fire she
Moved like a creeping vine
The posse could feel the breath
Of the dogs behind them, hunt ing for death
A ratt ler wrapped around a rat’s nest the
Rope finds it's way ’round the neck!
The t rees gave way to a clearing
It was sorcer y they were hearing
The Rose Coven appearing
’round a magic fire ’t il morning
Lance tore through his platoon he threw
A lantern like a harpoon
The dogs slunk back into their dunes the men
Made camp by the light of the moon
So they dressed the horse in
Ornament, for the Mother star
As a sacrament
The posse pitched their tents on cliffside
Blanche heard music from the valley wild
-SCENE SEVEN- (The posse makes camp for
Night on a cliffside
Overlooking a wide valley blanche
Makes a discovery) hidden under a stone
Where all worthy things go
Pulsing and fresh grown: the branch
Of a new rose
Blanche reached to pick the bud
It pricked her and drew blood
Under the under-sun, for the Coven
A young one she felt her heart grow
She thought of that horse alone bLANCHE:
Where you go, I go i’ll find you a way home
Where you go, I go where you go, I go
Where you go, I go where you go, I go