The Sandman's Balad Lyrics

A King stands alone on top of a hill

His cape softly undulates to the will of the twilight winds

Whispers descend into the valley to sow the seeds of dreams

They fall into the tracks of a traveler's path

Weary, he stops and looks up

To the sultan skies in dismay

Amidst fiery clouds a dragon soars

Clothed in feathers of a dying day

Kukulkan's plumes plummeted and turned to rain

He squirmed and lashed the heavens with a silver-flash vein

His low roar rattled the heart of the earth in vain

As a barren city in ruins echoed his name

In his temple, the ghost of a king's unrequited love remains

His words forsaken, in a world ravaged by flames

Through the seven veils, it danced unseen

The darkest of thoughts, the cruelest of dreams

Past the seventh gate, it laid bare what a scheme

Out of the depths, Salome forged the darkest of dreams

Johnny B. had the sky in his eyes

And the land underfoot was scorched

Raw with the death of a friend

Johnny B. lingered in his memory

leaving all behind but a legacy

So he took it across the desert plain

To the fields of grain and the jungly rains

Until Johnny faced a giant mound

As he climbed, the dirt and rocks turned to chiseled blocks

Only then did he find the truth behind it all

So he laid his battered body to rest under the stars

Atop the last stony block, chop

His sleepy head fell in tinseled blood

And started to roll down a thousand stairs

As it tumbled his head turned to stone and shattered to rubble

All the way down to a grain of sand

Which rolled right back into the sandman's hand