My love, she waits   Outside the liar's gates   And the dead-eyed boys inside   Hear the dead-eyes girls decide      That there ain't no use in living   When every diamond has been given   Sing a requiem for a kingdom      My love, she laughs   As the days go roaring past   With her heart full of rain   She dances upon the flames      And in the year of the gun   Should you find yourself under a foreign sun   Cry a requiem for a kingdom      My love swims the river   With a knife between her teeth   And a million crows hide the sun   From the suicides beneath      And oh, what a crime   To be dying all of the time   To a requiem for a kingdom      And it must the blade   The circus and the parade   That steals your breath   And loves this land to death      And I don't want your freedom   When the saints are all drunk, can't you hear them   Howl a requiem for a kingdom