Fairytale of Another Time

Lightning struck down in the castle one night
Dividing the tower one dark and one bright
The king took the bright one with all of his men
But the queen she stayed in the darker of them
Separate now as the night crawls in
Separate now as the journey begins

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time

I lived with my parents in a village nearby
When on that night I saw flames in the sky
Fire and ashes like rain came down
It burned every house in the village to the ground
Barren is the land now that I must roam
Since nothing remains of what I used to call home

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time

Then I remembered what the wizard said
The night before fire spread
Meet me where mystery rivers flow
Just a few miles up ahead you must go
But first you must pass the mountain of doom
There you will see a golden sun and a silver moon
Reaching that point will ease your strife
As you glimpse the secrets of eternal life

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time

A few years went by and peace was held
No fighting knights in all of the realm
Flowers were blooming everywhere you went
And doves were flying with the letters you sent
I often think of the night when the wizard came
White and blue was the color of his flame
He told me to go where I’ve never gone before
And now I’m walking in the forest with a chill in my core

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time

I’ve walked past the mountains and all of the valleys
I rolled like a stone, and I rocked like the breeze
But the road went on forever it seemed
Maybe the wizard was something I dreamed
When the sun came down and I made a bed
I could hear the howling wolfs in my head

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time

I dreamt they were forming a circle a ring,
They simply bowed down to some sacred thing
It looked like a baby but it smelled like the ocean
It seemed to be putting all our dreams into motion
And it made me want to become a woman
Tune myself to the rhythm of nature
Lose my grip in the mountains I’m climbing
Fall back down to receive my surroundings
Pulled by the earth and by the poems of nightfall
I can hear the echo of my voice as I call

From a fairytale of somewhere in time

I awoke in the morning with the first rays of sunlight
Deepened my gaze into the heart of the matter
I tried to solve the riddle of the rune stone
When I saw that beautiful ever-changing rhythm of light
Time has passed and yet all time remains
The answer is secretly kissing the flames
Nineteen long years for the moon to align
Roots of the trees go deep in the ground

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time

Quite now let the birds do the singing
It’s a silent revolution that the wizard is bringing
The pain of ignorance a dreadful cry
Without the queen the doves wouldn’t fly
And with the burden of a kingdom inside his head
The king was depleted he was almost dead
So he gave the crowd one last desperate look
Then he finally jumped the distance it took
And just then a raven flew across the sky
You could see the whole story in his eye
Reflecting the legend of a king and a queen
Coming together to end the dream
Now the legend of land where the earth is still young
Is forever to be played on the harp unstrung

But it’s just a fairytale of another time
It’s just a fairytale of another time