The Mechanisms
Skin and Bone
[Verse 1: Mordred]
My friends down here, I return to you
In the light I did what I went to do
With my father’s power for peace I sue
And in the sun there’s room for you
[Chorus]
Skin and bone, you're alone
Don’t hate what you now see
Though starving fools cry "Saxon ghouls"
In the darkness we run free
[Verse 2: Saxons]
What care we for your light and sun?
In the dark we see, in the black we run
We use a knife, they use a gun
And each will kill the other one
[Chorus]
Skin and bone, you're alone
Don’t hate what you now see
Though starving fools cry "Saxon ghouls"
In the darkness we run free
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3: Mordred]
I beg you now this war to cease
They seek the GRAIL in the depths beneath
Air and water, shelter and feast
We can share with you if there's peace
[Chorus]
Skin and bone, you're alone
Don’t hate what you now see
Though starving fools cry "Saxon ghouls"
In the darkness we run free
[Verse 4: Saxons]
What care we for your wealth and GRAIL?
With a sharpened tooth and a jagged nail
We’ve no use for your fairytale
Your childish quest is doomed to fail
[Chorus]
Skin and bone, you're alone
Don’t hate what you now see
Though starving fools cry "Saxon ghouls"
In the darkness we run free
[Verse 5: Mordred & Saxons, overlapping]
We can do without this constant (death is all they know)
I’ll defend you to my dying (breath is cheap here below)
Please believe me, there’s not much time (you left us but now you show)
I’ll show you peace, (then we will try)
We’ll walk beneath the rusted sky