| The crown, my deeds Like a burden does it seem
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| I stand all alone In a dark and empty dream
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| Such is the bitter taste
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| Of the blarney outta hell
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| There was a life to waste
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| And the witches did it well
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| Here as I sit
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| On a cold and empty throne
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| The thanes, most men
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| All have fled I am alone
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| Such is the bitter taste
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| Of my hopes about to fall
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| There was a life to waste
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| I see demons rising tall
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| (Bridge:)
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| No use to run and hide
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| No use to run and hide
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| (Ref.:)
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| Now as my dreams lie there in pieces
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| Where is the glory after all
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| Now as I stand amidst the ruins
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| I see demons rising tall
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| Demons rising tall
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| Still I am invincible
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| No fear in my heart there’ll be
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| No man man of woman born
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| Shall have power over me
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| Yet there is a bitter taste
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| Of the madness that did fall.
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| I had a life to waste
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| I see demons rising tall
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| (Macbeth:) They have tied me to a stake. |
| I cannot fly, but bear-like I must
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| fight the course. |
| What’s he that was not born of woman? |
| Such a one am I to fear,
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| or none.
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| (Young Siward:) What is thy name?
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| (Macbeth:) Thou’lt be afraid to hear it.
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| (Young Siward:) No, though thou call’st thyself a hotter name than any is in
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| hell.
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| (Macbeth:) My name’s Macbeth.
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| (Young Siward:) The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to
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| mine ear.
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| (Macbeth:) No, nor more fearful.
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| (Young Siward:) Thou liest, abhorred tyrant. |
| With my sword I’ll prove the lie
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| thou speak’st.
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| (They fight, and young Siward is slain)
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| (Macbeth:) Thou wast born of woman, but swords I smile at, weapons laugh to
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| scorn, brandished by man that’s of a woman bom.
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| (Macbeth:) Why should 1 play the Roman fool, and die on mine own sword?
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| Whiles I see lives, the gashes do better upon them.
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| (Enter Macduff)
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| (Macduff:) Turn, hell-hound, turn.
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| (Macbeth:) Macduff, of all men else I have avoided thee. |
| But get thee back.
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| My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.
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| (Macduff:) I have no words; |
| My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain than
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| terms can give thee out.
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| (They fight)
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| (Macbeth:) Thou losest labour. |
| As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air with thy
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| keen sword impress as make me bleed. |
| Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
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| I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born.
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| (Macduff:) Despair thy charm, and let the angel whom thou still hast served
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| tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.
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| (Macbeth:) Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, for it hath cowed my
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| better part of man; |
| and be these juggling fiends no more believed,
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| that palter with us in a double sense, that keep the word of promise to our
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| ear and break it to our hope. |
| I’ll not fight with thee.
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| (Macduff:) Then yield thee, coward,
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| (Macbeth:) I will not yield to kiss the ground before your feet,
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| and to be baited with the rabble’s curse.
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| Though thou opposed being of no woman born, yet I will try the last.
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| Before my body I throw my warlike shield. |
| Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him
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| that first cries: «Hold, enough!"My fate may have turned to black but at least
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| I 'II die with harness on my back. |