Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Richard of York , by - Simon Bookish. Song from the album Unfair / Funfair, in the genre ЭлектроникаRelease date: 19.03.2006
Record label: Library of Nothing
Song language: English
Richard of York |
| The royal meteorologist’s expression is pained |
| The weather looks bad and it’s starting to rain |
| Wasting his prayers on a fate already sealed |
| Kneeling in a tent, intent, in a Bosworth field |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| This weatherman, whose charts predict severe precipitation |
| Couldn’t say, couldn’t say the future of a nation |
| Fearing Richard of York giving battle in vain |
| He pleads with the king in a language untamed: |
| «Oh please insane monarch don’t you know what you’re doing |
| Get down off your steed a storm is a-brewing |
| Written right here in history on pages unturned |
| Give the king half an hour he’ll be food for the worms» |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| But the nonchalant king, with his transparent skin |
| Views the battlefield and yawns as a grey day dawns |
| In his veins a juice flows of a curious colour |
| Not blood but white rose hence the unearthly pallor |
| The sky rains down daggers cutting mud from the loam |
| Richard’s whole army washed away by the storm |
| Crying «Spur your proud horses», the Tudors upon him |
| But the sun, not the storm, tears him limb from pale limb |
| «Chisels a prism where once was an eye |
| Splits open his chest as he lays down to die |
| The hills and the standards are strangely afire |
| As he bleeds seven hues into England’s grey sky» |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Red |
| Orange |
| Yellow |
| Green |
| Blue |
| Indigo |
| Violet |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |
| Richard of York gave battle in vain |