Finity's End 06 - Serpent's Reach [HQ]

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[book: Serpent's Reach]

Lyrics.

Now I have seen the madness gleaming in the serpent's eye
And that is what I've come to you to tell.
For the queen of Blue hive told me, when I crawled to her to die,
When I made her send my enemies to hell.

There's a price for too much cleverness, a price for too much change,
The majat learn too much from man, and they have grown too strange.
That was the lesson that she had to teach:
The hives have grown too large to hear, flown beyond her range,
And madness is the queen of Serpent's Reach.

And the oldest human said it, while I stood to hear my fate,
With slow death all that I could see ahead.
"There is a thing not on our tapes, a thing you'll learn too late
Too many killed, yet not enough are dead.

"There's a price for too much arrogance, a price for too much greed,
And in complacent ignorance we've sown the whirlwind seed."
But nobody else there listened to his speech,
We Kontrin outlive all we love, forgetting all we need,
And we are all gone mad in Serpent's Reach.

And so I'm here to show you, in the way you understand,
We have more things to learn, more debts to pay.
And for all the easy murders, all the victories you've planned,
Your foolishness has thrown it all away.

There's a price for all the men we mold, a price for all the tapes,
The betas and their azi clones we treat as clever apes.
And the tidal wave is rising, while we dance upon the beach,
Sneering at our own reflections, laughing at our shadow shapes,
Till madness drowns us all in Serpent's Reach.

I've thrown the wands too often, played too many games of sej,
And hoped you thought I gambled for a lark.
You've won the ships, you've won the stars, you think you've all the edge,
But now at last we're dicing for the dark.

There's a price for too much sadness, and a price for too much pain,
Too much time in the singing darkness of the hive folk's brain.
But I will have someone to love, someone to trust and teach,
And maybe, in the darkness, we can learn how to be sane,
When morning comes again to Serpent's Reach.