"Peaceable Kingdom"
A wave toward the clearing the sky
All this time we're talking and sharing our rational view
A billion other voices are spreading other news
All this time we're living and trying to understand
Why a billion other choices are making their demands
Talk of a peaceable kingdom
Talk of a time without fear
The ones we wish would listen
Are never going to hear
Justice against the hanged man
Knight of Wands against the hour
Swords against the kingdom
Time against the tower
All this time we're shuffling and laying out all our cards
While a billion other dealers are slipping past our guards
All this time we're hoping and praying we all might learn
While a billion other teachers are teaching them how to burn
Dream of a peaceable kingdom
Dream of a time without war
The ones we wish would hear us
Have heard it all before
A wave toward the clearing sky
A wave toward the clearing sky
The hermit against the lovers
Or the devil against the fool
Swords against the kingdom
The wheel against the rules
All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark
A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks
Every spark a drifting ember of desire
To fall upon the earth and spark another fire
A homeward angel on the fly
A wave toward the clearing sky
I know not everyone will get this, and SMD will prolly want to hang me, but I'm going to compare these to SK's Dark Tower series. Now, I know neither of these songs were written about it, but they still fit quite eerily. Here's me compare-y-sons:
Talk of a peaceable kingdom - This reminds me more than a little of what Roland described Gilead to be in his childhood.
Justice against the hanged man - at the end of "The Gunslinger", The Man In Black reads the cards for Roland, he draws the Hanged Man, and tells the gunslinger that the Hanged man is him.
Time against the tower
All this time we're shuffling and laying out all our cards - the card thing again, lol. Could be attributed to the MIB's tarot cards, but in the second book when Roland has been poisoned and Eddie is dragging him along the beach as he slips in and out of conciousness, I do believe that chapter is called "Shuffle". Weak, I know, lol.
The hermit against the lovers - this to me suggests Rhea of the Coos and her fight against Roland and his lover Susan. But, if memory serves, and it doesn't always, the first few lines of the poem "Childe Roland to the Drk Tower Came" by Robert Browning, begins with a character that is described as a hermit, which is who King based Flagg on.
^^^ Rhea
^^^The Lovers
Or the devil against the fool - Fool = Cuthbert? lol, okay, I haven't got much there.
The wheel against the rules - many times ka, destiny, is compared to a wheel.
All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark - okay, this one really is weak, but it's what it made me think of - Susan's death on the Reaping bonfire.
This one just reminds me so completely of Roland, the gunslinger:
"Ghost Rider"
Pack up all those phantoms
Shoulder that invisible load
Keep on riding North and West
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
Carry all those phantoms
Through bitter wind and stormy skies
From the desert to the mountain
From the lowest low to the highest high
Like a ghost rider
Keep on riding North and West
Then circle South and East
Show me beauty but there is no peace
For the ghost rider
Shadows on the road behind
Shadows on the road ahead
Nothing can stop you now
There's a shadow on the road behind
There's a shadow on the road ahead
Nothing can stop you now
Sunrise in the mirror
Lightens that invisible load
Riding on a nameless quest
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
Just an escape artist
Racing against the night
A wandering hermit
Racing toward the light
From the white sands
To the canyon lands
To the redwood stands
To the barren lands
Sunrise on the road behind
Sunset on the road ahead
There's nothing to stop you now
Nothing can stop you now
