Donors of the soul...

[Verse 1 - Recitative - Clear Male Voice]
Hail, you people... donors of the soul...
What price today for faith and hope, I wonder?
Stability's still promised, torn asunder?
And Heaven's gate for pennies makes you whole?
[Drums Break]

[Verse 1 - Raspy/Rough Male Voice - Guitars intensify slightly]
Once more the lost land stands, its fate unclear,
The noose around its neck, upon the stool it climbs,
Kissing the dusty portraits desperate times,
Drunk on their love, though not a drop is near.

[Chorus - Powerful Male Vocal Trio - Heavy Guitars, Symphonic Chorus]
Rejected sense, turned into a farce complete -
We blindly tread on rakes that lie before us...
There, falling in, they bare their blades in chorus,
Oprichniks, in our own image, meet!

[Cool Rock Guitar Solo Interlude 1 - Crescendo - Tone Shift - Drums Break]

[Verse 2 - Raspy/Rough Male Voice - Guitars intensify slightly]
There, trembling hand raised high towards the sky,
A jester green leaps frantic from his crate,
Ratings and bulletins seal our grim fate,
A ragged "Hooray!" tears the throat awry!
[Chorus - Powerful Male Vocal Trio]
Again the circle... Hook upon the beam...
Where's the Happy End? Save our souls, we plead!
But only lies cling to us, sown like seed...
Cheap "Rollton" flavour in the ration's scheme...

[Cool Rock Guitar Solo Interlude 2 - Crescendo - Tone Shift - Drums Break]

[Chorus - Powerful Male Vocal Trio - Guitars intensify slightly]
For years we ride towards the Heavenly gate,
The driver knows the answers, holds the key!
The fuel runs dry, or smokes for you and me,
Or hostile troops seal off our route of late.
[Drums Break]
Above each head, a halo, lips held tight...
And though Lady Luck may swerve and sway,
We'll burn all those who think a different way,
Like in the Time of Troubles, dead of night...!!!

[Recitative - Clear Male Voice]
The donors of the soul, their faces bright,
Clutch sacred bread like holy, hallowed things.
At Heaven's gate, discarded idols cling,
But no angel comes to lift the latch tonight...
[Scream with Long Echo - Raspy Voice]
(no angel comes to lift the latch...!)

[Drums Break - Outro: Heavy riff, orchestral fade, atmospheric keys - End]
[End]