an ode to l'manburg

It all started on a day like any other
 All the salmon had swum to the sea
 When my lover she darted away down the stream
 With the heart that she'd taken from me
 And my chest, though it ached, there was hope
 A little beacon of light
 Though my sunniest days are now stolen away
 I still had our son by my side
 And as he looked up at me with those wondering eyes
 I just knew that I must protect him with my life
 And make a land that is good and a land that is free
 For the better of you and of me
 We'll build these walls with our own fair hands
 Through the wind and the rain and the snow
 And I swear on my life that I'll stay by your side
 Through whatever the world has to throw
 So I summoned my men to my side
 And we sung a familiar tune
 As a final goodbye with our fists to the sky
 To our past as we started anew
 We built these walls with our own fair hands
 Through the wind and the rain and the snow
 And we swore that we'd keep an unwavering faith
 To the land that we'd carved for a home
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 Oh the thought of the day set our country aflame
 As the sun rose bloody and true
 Arrows burned through the skies as we swallowed our cry
 And we ran with our backs to the moon
 To our demise
 From a friend full of lies
 Oh the break of the day shed its light
 On our hearts left battered and bruised
 All the hopes that we'd laid on the home that we'd made
 Torn to peices and left in the blue
 But my friend with an angry cry
 Held the weight of our world at his side
 Took a trembling stand with an arrow in hand
 As he muttered a final goodbye