Once And Future King Tabulatur von The Mechanisms (für Baryton)

[Verse 1]
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A broken man lies in the rust that's stained his whole life through
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The blood that pools beneath him doesn’t change the metal's hue
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Like rain fall long forgotten, Mordred's tears in his wounds do sting
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To Arthur in his arms he sings, ’You're the Once and Future King'

[Verse 2]
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Galahad's blind faith, Gawain's blind hate could overcome his might
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His lovers' eyes he'd last seen gleam in the pin of his gunsight
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From the wastes his child came bringing revelations of all things
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Arthur didn't see, and now he’ll be, the Once and Future King

[Verse 3]
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Loved only by a woman whom he’d been taught to despise
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Mordred's gift to Arthur could be love in his own eyes 
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Fating him alone to keep the life to which he clings
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He sends him out, into the dark, the Once and Future King

[Verse 4]
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A kiss upon his forehead binds at last his son’s goodbye
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Just one more shot will send him out into the endless sky
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Here at the end of history, as the final high noon rings
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Mordred sits and waits without the Once and Future King

[Verse 5]
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Faster now and faster in the sun the station sets
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Its people damned, doomed by a man who's lost all his regrets
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But as it burns so far above a second star's shining
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While his world it dies, he's left alive, the Once and Future King