Lyrics

[elasait]

Here are the words to "Kay's Song":

I once dreamed the dreams of a hero.
My birthright it was, I thought then,
To do glorious deeds, and perhaps win the Crown,
But the call went to you
For your bloodline ran true,
And to you went the old king's high seat and renown.

So you set up your court at Tintagel,
And to you came the great warriors all.
For you were the hope of our fair troubled land,
And the battle was joined--
Ah, the songs the bards coined!--
As enemies fell to your mighty sword-hand.

But warfare, you learned, is expensive,
And the realm's business needs tending still.
Though you'd plenty of men with great strength of arm,
Still, you needed one most
To assume all the host
Of small worries and ills, lest they do the realm harm.

So you turned to your own foster-brother
Who'd distinguished himself not at all,
And you charged me to see that your law was not lost,
To account for your gold,
Care for folk young and old,
My duty to check you when you'd not heed the cost.

Round my neck hangs the key of your kingdom,
And to me fall the day-to-day chores
Of preserving this delicate world that we've raised,
And though faithfully done,
My deeds won't be sung
By the bards, for few realize just what that key weighs.

So bow to your king, as he strides through his hall
With the fairest of queens at his side,
And tell of his knights and their bright deeds of fame
In story and song,
Of a proud reign, and long--
Then look behind and remember his first servant's name.