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The Emperor

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Lyrics inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes"
Final verses taken from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Pains Of Sleep" (slightly modified)

lyrics

You're full of life
and full of hope,
you strive for the best
but you’re tied with rope.
It hurts a lot
when you inhale –
and yet you'd better die,
than comfortably fail.

The emperor –
he wears no clothes,
his words ain't his -
they're simply quotes.
You know about him
more than about you
and who ever doubts
what he says is true?

Ch.: The emperor, my king
the name in which I sing,
how many children will
it take to break the still?

Now you gnaw the rope
with bare teeth
and shout out loud
about your feat.
Then when you were child
you could expose
the emperor -
who told your eyes to close?

Ch.:...

(Solo: Nikola)

But silently, by slow degrees,
with moving lips or bended knees;
it hath not been my use to pray -
ere on my bed my lambs I slay.

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from Revival, track released May 9, 2023
Rumen Pavlov - vocals, guitars
Nikola Ognyanov - lead guitars
Alexander Benev - bass
Bozhidar Davidkov - drums

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Revival Sofia, Bulgaria

Est. 2011
Sofia, Bulgaria

Rumen Pavlov – vocals, guitars
Nikola Ognyanov – guitars
Alexander Benev – bass
Bozhidar Davidkov - drums

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