Scheherazade - Abney Park

Across the sea of endless dunes

There was a city covered in ruins

Tell the tale of a faithless king

And how his wives had been suffering

Each day he wed another wife

And each morning he would take another life

And loyalty he could not find?

'Til the day he wed Scheherazade

Writhe and spin and tell your tale

Bend and twist, your life is frail

Writhe and spin and tell your tale

Bend and twist, your life is frail

A thousand miles across seas of sand

There was a prince in a merciful land

With Scheherazade he played when young

And her love around him, around him hung?

She tied a note to a raptor's claw

And he stretched his wings, disobeyed the law

That bird of prey flew through the night

To tell the prince of Scheherazade's plight

Writhe and spin and tell your tale

Bend and twist, your life is frail

Writhe and spin and tell your tale

Bend and twist, your life is frail