I'll sing to you of days departed,
Times when men proud and stouthearted carved their names on history's bloody
Page,
The corpse of chivalry long dead
Is turning in his loamy bed indignant at your new 'enlightened' age
White-collared knights at boardroom tables dream their own financial fables,
Fight to make their incomes larger--mounted on their 'credit charges.'

Held within the safety of this mundane existence--
Facing endless grey Mondays of dull nine to fives,
We all climb the social ladder with a dogged persistence,
Forging chains we shall carry for the rest of our lives.

We cannot see through clothes may maketh man they cannot give us shelter--
On this mortal helter-skelter if our loyalties are torn,
Between the values we believe in and the egos we are feeding--
We stand all together naked as the day we were born.
And so cast off the lies that are our lives and find the truth within.

SKYCLAD--the veil has lifted,
SKYCLAD--now I see through,
SKYCLAD--your mask of illusion,
SKYCLAD--to the fake that is you.

Financial wizards read their spells from filofaxes
Concrete hells of their own making pass for Avalon.
These men self-made by shrewd investing spend their weekends child-molesting,
Lost in 'green-belt' dreams they do no wrong.

Your mortgage payment rocket--
Like your blood pressure rising,
Executive stresses are the dragons you fight.
In your Armani armour you are practically shining,
So have no code of honour--you must always be right.

Just give me a simple life--my tastes are not demanding,
And whatever life may hand me I'll accept it with good grace;
For I'm just a simple lad with few ideas about my station,
So ale and song will apt suffice to keep me in my place.

How can you know the cost of everything yet never see its worth?
If you think because you've paid the piper you should call the tune--
Well think again my friend life is a gain of chance,
By Fate's command we win or lose,
But still retain the right to choose
If we should stumble on--or shed our cares and dance

SKYCLAD--the veil has lifted,
SKYCLAD--no I see through,
SKYCLAD--your mask of illusion,
SKYCLAD--to the fake that is you.

You charge each other for the time and breath it takes to say 'good morning,'
But the truth is slowly dawning--things are getting out of hand,
We all pursue our shattered dreams along the roads to our own ruin--
Watch our empires sink and wash away like castles made of sand.

And so cast off the lies that are your lives and find the truth within




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» A Broken Promised Land
» A Clown of Thorns
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» A Near Life Experience
» A Room Next Door
» A Stranger In The Garden
» A Well Beside the River
» A Word To The Wise
» Alone In Death's Shadow
» Alone in Deaths Shadow
» Another Fine Mess
» ANY OLD IRONY
» Art Nazi
» Bewilderbeast
» Bombjour
» Brimstone Ballet
» Building a Ruin
» Bury Me
» Cancer of the Heart
» Cardboard City
» Catherine at the Wheel
» Civil War Dance
» Come On Eileen
» Constance Eternal
» Crux Of The Message
» Cry Of The Land
» Dead Angels on Ice
» Desperanto
» Desperanto A Song For Europe
» Earth Mother The Sun And The Furious Host
» Eirenarch
» Emerald
» Fainting by Numbers
» Gammadion Seed
» Great Blow For A Day Job
» Halo Of Flies
» Helium
» History Lessens
» History Lessens (The Final Examination)
» History Lessons
» I Dubious
» Inequality Street
» Intro Pagan Man
» Intro Pagan Man 100
» Intro: Pagan Man [1:00]
» Isle of Jura
» It Wasn't Meant To End This Way
» It Wasnt Meant to End This Way
» Jeopardy
» Jumping My Shadow
» Just What Nobody Wanted
» Karmageddon
» Karmageddon The Suffering Silence
» Land Of The Rising Slum
» Little Miss Take
» Master Race
» Men Of Straw
» Moongleam And Meadowsweet
» Moongleam And Meadowsweet 435
» Moongleam And Meadowsweet [4:35]
» My Mother In Darkness
» My Naked I
» No Deposit No Return
» No Strings Attached
» On With Their Heads!
» Our Dying Island
» Our Dying Island 707
» Our Dying Island [7:07]
» Penny Dreadful
» Polkageist
» Postcard From Planet Earth
» Quantity Time
» R'vannith
» Ring Stone Round
» Rvannith
» Salt on the Earth
» Salt On The Earth Another Man's Poison
» Schadenfreude
» Science Never Sleeps
» Single Phial
» Sins Of Emission
» Skyclad
» Skyclad 501
» Skyclad [5:01]
» Snake Charming
» Something to Cling To
» Spinning Jenny
» Still Spinning Shrapnel
» Swords Of A Thousand Men
» Terminus
» Terminus 638
» Terminus [6:38]
» The Antibody Politic
» The Cradle Will Fall
» The Cradle Will Fall 626
» The Cradle Will Fall [6:26]
» The Declaration Of Indifference
» The Disenchanted Forest
» The Great Brain Robbery
» The Ilk Of Human Blindness
» The Once Piece Puzzle
» The One Piece Puzzle
» The Present Imperfect
» The Silver Clouds Dark Lining
» The Sinful Ensemble
» The Sky Beneath My Feet
» The Sky Beneath My Feet 541
» The Sky Beneath My Feet [5:41]
» The Thread of Evermore
» The Truth Famine
» The Wickedest Man In The World
» The Widdershins Jig
» The Widdershins Jig 340
» The Widdershins Jig [3:40]
» The Wrong Song
» THINK BACK AND LIE OF ENGLAND
» Thinking Allowed
» Trance Dance
» Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout)
» Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout) [5:29]
» Trance Dance A Dreamtime Walkabout 529
» Troublesometimes
» Tunnel Visionaries
» Turncoat Rebellion
» Vintage Whine
» When All Else Fails
» When God Logs Off
» Womb Of The Worm
» Worn out Sole to Heel
» You Lost My Memory

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