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King of Shadows

from King Of Shadows by Stealing The Fire

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King of Shadows

The sun is shining but it gives no warmth
The King of Shadows laughs his perfect laugh
Once a trickster, a force of nature
Lover’s bane, a maiden’s pleasure.

He was the missing wedding ring
The twisted rhymes the children sing
The circled wheat, the midnight feast
The candle corpse, the panicked priest.

Was he laughing for us all?
Before we turned away?
Now he rides the roaring sky
And works for judgement day.

Are the fields of England still as bright
In the ring-tones of their dreams?
Do eyes the burn in forest wounds
Glow as brightly as their screens?
They have spears of steel with tails of fire
And ranks of smart machines
Secret names untimely ripped
Like serpents will deceive

The King sits on his fractal throne
He’s the code of the virus
The ghost on the phone
The stealth and evasion
The crash and the freeze
He’s the glitch in the software
The sex-spread disease

Why did we all turn away
From the Shadow King
The brighter day?
Without the light a shadow dies
The siren screams, the needle bites.

We’re lost without the laughing King
We smell the truth but we eat the spin.
We bite our wounds and curse the skies
And no one knows if we’ll survive.

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from King Of Shadows, released June 30, 2020

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Stealing The Fire Norwich, UK

Stealing The Fire combine classic 70’s Prog influences with elements of modern Prog, folk, space rock and electronica to create a melodic and harmonic feast to please even the most jaded prog palate. Long instrumentals featuring complex guitar and keyboard lines alternate with songs highlighting Saff’s extraordinary vocals. Welcome to Progressive rock from the wild flatlands of Eastern England. ... more

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