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War
ASM

[Narrator]

Faces frozen with pride, guts knotted by fear

Kingdoms keepers’ rank and file

Born to die as the flag flies high


[Shalim]

It’s been a few days since we slept

On a lone road that never ends

A war heaven sent

So they say in the ranks under General Rongon’s reign

My mind drifts away, while my feet obey

The rhythm of the war drums night and day

But why this way? Why weapons?

Marching for weeks, I don’t see where the threat is


[Narrator]

Blind in belief, seduced by athena

Flood of the masses, troops of medina

Courtship, war dance

Weeks roll by as the ranks advance

Drums pound relentless

Age old mating call of the trenches

Forth! Onward the regiment

Fossils bleed in the rock face sediment

Faces frozen with pride, guts knotted by fear

Enemy on the horizon

No more turning back pup, its live and let die

Are you wolf or a mere sheep?

Now or never, man up!


[Shalim]

Pull the steel out the sheath, scope the tree line

Boulders are flying for the first time from our catapults

Inadequately placed in the center, me

Trying to find Illys in this chaos unsuccessfully

Not to mention sense in this burst of moments

In self-defense bringing ends to Bangali soldiers

They’re coming at me faster than a cobra

But “ching” goes the swing of my sword and it’s over

I fear for my flesh, hence the blood on my hands

And the countless men with no heads for their shoulders

But no regret, best to live than be dead

In a Bangali riverbed left for the vultures


[Narrator]

Many men fall to the wrath of the broad sword

Natural warlord

Moves like water made a pact with poseidon

Trance-like dance let his instincts guide him

Blinks, dives in, warrior within him

Swimming easily as the blood-lust takes hold

Found the sound of the slice quite satisfying

Ends shit quick with the blade to the throat

Only 16 but his mind is old

And when he’s on the front line his warm heart turns cold

Another foe deceased another story is told

Seminal, even caught the eye of the general


[Shalim]

And then it strikes me, lightning

Is this who we’re meant to be fighting?

With iron-forged weapons and blessings of titans

Stick waving fishermen who bear a lot of likeness

No, there must be more to this

I’ve never seen so much helplessness

And innocence in the face of the children and women

It’s the ways of the tyrant and it’s sick

And I don’t know where Illys is

Illys man, we gotta go quick

ILLYS!


[Narrator]

He feels the body in his arms grow ever more heavy as the life seeps out

Hollowness where his friends eyes had been

On the top of the hill, the prodigious form of rongon the king’s heir presides

Still intoxicated by the fumes of battle


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That night at the camp, light of the lamp

All those that died that day

No sleep would come

His wheezing lungs

So sore and the call of the jungle

Feels he could indefinitely hibernate

Mind is racing in hyperspace

Giving out riddled with doubt

Another motherless helpless pebble in the tidal wave


[Shalim]

Can’t take another sec, can’t break another neck

Can’t let a brother go yet

Now we are the threat We’re supposed to be opposed to

Roll through slaughtering the feeble

First time contemplating evil

Bear witness, Illys did not die in vein

Now, I’m gonna run away

Through the forest, new to all this

Wield only my sword and my garments

And of course there’s my Amulet

I can’t live without it

As if a force bared in the clouded

Shade of jade makes the pain be milder

But I’m alone, I’m all alone


[Narrator]

He’s a legal murderer, illegal deserter

Can’t undo what had been done

So there’s only one way to go

Into the sun, gotta run

Flight, only ally the night and the stamina

Generated by both the fear and the conviction

That he wouldn’t die for fiction’s depictions


[Shalim]

Heart’s racing, Motivation

Feeling the breath of the wild dogs chasing

How can they be hungrier than me?

How can I be safe among the trees?

How can the Bangali and Vabarians live in eternal peace?

So many thoughts cluster my mind

All I wanna know is why did they all die?


[Narrator]

Reinterpret the texture of the surface

Of that which had led ‘em to bow down to rhetoric

A desolate symbol of freedom the hectic

Eerie orchestra sends him back to the sorcerer

That he had become when his eyes turned to fireballs

Burning like inferno

Had pleased that beast at the helm

Heir to the throne, prince of the realm

Rongon! And he couldn’t forget

A little more familiar than he cares to admit

Vague flashes of memory stacking up

Rush! All seemed new much realer

Soul of a monk, skills of a killer


[Shalim]

Finally find my bearing

In a faint drum sound that I’m hearing

Try to get near, not fearing

Slowly approaching a clearing

I hear cheering, it’s alive

Wondering if I can trust my eyes


[Narrator]

As the fear subsides

Gradually his heart rate starts settling

And what he had though to be the slight of the panic, auditory mirage

Was indeed the sound of drums in the distance, hypnotically beckoning

And what was left to lose?


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