It's hard to leave all our possessions I find it hard, hard to leave behind the jewels But they keep hammering upon the back door And our new kings shall play at being fools To find the words to tell it to our children Quite unaware of what's about to be Between the sable and the bear skin Both worlds apart The freedom and the And they say time will prove to be the master And they say time will teach the weak to rise You could perhaps say that we were unaware If the truth be known it was right before our eyes Was no surprise... The hollow echo of the jailer The time has come we shall at last be free My mind is back inside the splendour They can take my blood but the fury stays with me The snow lies thick inside the courtyard A breeze of ignorance blows clean and new Between the present and the future Between the Sabbath and the empty pews And they say time will prove to be the master And they say time will teach the weak to rise You could perhaps say that we were unaware If the truth be known it was right before our eyes Was no surprise...