Valentine's Ballad (The Musical, Re-purposed) Lyrics

A fiery scourge had shrouded nations

Flanders, Holland, Prussia

From the south and to the west

In Sweden and in Russia

The brazen curse had ruled all reason

Witches, pagans, sorcerers

Hunted down and demonised on

Spell cast by their torturers

The sacrifice, on the altar

A malady I once beheld

Through her tears I saw my lover

A sacred life the bond they held

Within the pyre I faced the anguish

With truth at stake, no place to hide

Fear aside, its then I realised

Here the ways of men divide

The world beyond, stirred by fervour

The toxic word the gravest sin

The blind belief, the trance it conjured

Led me to the quest within

Oppressive thrones with hollow idols

The worshiper to bend the knee

Alone in thought, aware of feeling

I journey with my spirit free

I write this verse for global rulers

The house of pow'r, enforcers too

You've made your move, the op'ning gambit

On board captured by silent coup

The pieces trapped, there's no manoeuvre

Where rooks and knights and bishop's prey

A decoy used to curb the counter

A feature of the master's play

As lines progress to seize the centre

Control of both the rank and file

The lady's wedge, divides to conquer

Resistance, from those, you revile

The humble pawn it too has powers

To bravely bear the warrior's fate

The king exposed, as light advances

To fall, when it is check and mate

I close with words that we the people

Rejecting your technocracy

Recognise the deep blue state as

Rival to humanity