Don't mean it's all just talk
Don't you know with others I'm quiet?
And for so long there was only silence
Exile and running and violence
Within death ran riot
Put your hand in mine and come for a walk
Let us listen to the songs of the birds
We could be great together in our
time, Charlene
Have you not yet figured it out?
Do you not know who I am?
I am the prince
And you are the girl
And were we at last to kiss
We might set fire to this world
So that they may speak the more freely
And I escape all notice
Though for the kiss of recognition I yearn
Then lionhearted and sure will I return
To dispel the lies that were told us
About heresy and gold and opportunity
Strike a blow against fortune and men's eyes
And win the hand of the fair Charlene
Have you not yet figured it out?
Do you not know who I am?
I am the prince
And you are the girl
And were we at last to kiss
We might set fire to this world
She cried
I never sipped from the chalice
I lied
But I kept on searching
And I didn't die
The thought of you starts my heart to dance
I wish you could see the way you look in my eye
Election is the conceit of the learned
History is the conceit of nations
I went unseen at all of their stations
And there was no mercy in the offerings they burned
Stand with me amidst all their pleas and cries
Make fate our own and love our circumstance
Two together is the greatest force, Charlene
Have you not yet figured it out?
Do you not know who I am?
I am the prince
And you are the girl
And were we at last to kiss
We might set fire to this world
Mistake not in my cloak of rags
For my soul does not rove in tatters
And as a king I am with thee
In these and country matters
A world for you I would procure
And with my lines proclaim
Invite you where no other has stepped
With you share the same
For these things I make are not less than real
Even greater for the claim
Won't you walk out with me tonight, Charlene
In the soft midnight rain?
Do you not know who I am?
I am the prince
And you are the girl
And were we at last to kiss
We might set fire to this world
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