Antioch

Stand alone among the throngs, I blaspheme silently
 Nobody knows my private crime
 Walk with me
 Outside the city of Antioch
 Crusaders patiently laying siege
 Until the day came for Raynald Porchet
 The knight was captured and paraded on the walls
 "I will not plead or beg"
 Upon the walls, there on his knees
 He's on his way back home
 No ransom, don't you pay for my life or lift the siege
 You must persist
 Please fight hard, I've seen that behind the walls they are weakened
 Keep your resolve
 On his knees before the general,
 who offered anything if he'd apostatize
 The clever Raynald asked for some time to
 think about the proposition that he faced
 For days on end,
 so piously he prayed unto his God "I won't apostatize"
 He used the time to pray and ask for the
 strength to be prepared for what God willed
 It wasn't long before an interpreter
 found him out and saw he wouldn't capitulate
 Just like the Jews who could not sing their song of God on foreign
 soil These blasphemies kept in my
 mind could turn into a cross to bear
 On the walls, Raynald was paraded before us
 Helplessly, I watched him kneel
 One last time, a smile he offered to me before he died
 The headless saint of Antioch