The keeper of the keys    (video)

 

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1. I hear her voice, she calls to me,

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    I know she's near me, but I cannot see.

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    Through prison walls that come between

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    her dreams of freedom and the real world

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    where her face is never seen.

 

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    All the king's horses and all his men

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    are fearful of the power that can come from book and pen.

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    And all the changes there that can be found,

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    and far away I hear a distant sound, it's rolling like thunder.

 

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Oh, shout it from the highest window, break down every door,

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and tell them you won't take it anymore !

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Show that you will never spend a lifetime on your knees,

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rise up and catch the Keeper of the Keys.

 

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2. Oh, what ancient words

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    can hold her here, but she's never heard

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    by men who claim the higher ground

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    it was always there for them to have and hold

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    where a woman's never found.

 

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    All of the holy men who are at her door,

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    are frightened that their power will be lost for-ever-more.

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    If she believes her freedom's on the way,

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    and still it's getting louder every day, the sound of thunder.

 

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Oh, shout it from the highest window, break down every door,

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and tell them you won't take it anymore !

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Show that you will never spend a lifetime on your knees,

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rise up and catch the Keeper of the Keys.        Rise up !

 

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+  Tell them you will never spend a lifetime on your knees

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    and when you catch and kill the Keeper of the Keys !

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    You will be fr...........ee ! You will be fr.............ee !

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    You will be fr...........ee! You will be free !

 

    (Chris de Burgh)