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Frank Turner The Hymn Of Kassiani Official Audio
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Buy/Stream: https://frankturner.lnk.to/NoMansLandSo • 'Tales From No Man's Land' Podcast: https://frankturner.lnk.to/NMLSubscribe • More info: www.frank-turner.com • Lyrics: • I’ve heard that they call me the woman • Who has fallen into many sins. • They made me bear myrrh to the burial, • And at the graveside, I began to sing. • Woe to me, all of you sinners, • I’m the lady of a moonless night. • The darkness to me is my ecstasy, • But for my sins I am far from contrite. • They dragged me away from the library; • I was cast to the bride-show’s harsh light, • Where I told the king I was better than him, • And thus earned Theophilus’ spite. • And Theo, he still thinks I love him, • But I know him, and he knows not a thing. • They call me Kassiani: • The woman who rejected the king. • The emperor, he tore down the icons, • The images and words thought divine, • But in the quiet of my cell I redrew them all, • And the name that I signed with was mine. • I was scourged with the lash for my impudence, • My tears were a fountain of brine, • But I conceded no defeat, my groaning heart beats • With defiant blue blood Byzantine. • And Theo, he still thinks I love him • But I know him, and he knows not a thing. • Don’t disregard me as a servant, know me • As the woman who rejected the king. • Yes I hid from his eyes when he visited, • But don’t dare think me frightened or meek. • I was sick of his ineffable condescension, • And I will not kiss those sacred feet. • I will make his footsteps into music • To be heard by both heathen and Greek. • They will mock his meanderings in paradise at twilight, • And they’ll remember me: Kassiani, • She who hates silence when it’s time to speak. • And Theo, he still thinks I love him, • He knows not the multitude of my sins. • They will sing my song after Byzantium has gone: • The woman who rejected the king. • I’ve heard all the things that they’ve called me; • It’s just so many arrows and slings. • Leave the glory to the stepmother, and to the son, • I'm the woman who rejected the king.
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