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Dominion of the Sword

from Difficult Second Album by The Bricks

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lyrics

Lay by your pleading, the law lies a-bleeding
Burn all your studies, and throw out your reading.
Small pow'r the word has, and can afford us
Not half so much privilege as the sword does.

It flusters your masters, it [Bm]plasters disasters,
It maketh the servant more [G]great than his masters.
It ventures, it enters, it [Bm]seeks and it centers,
It sings out the truth 'twixt the [G]loyal and dissenters

It talks of small things, but it sets up all things;
Now this masters money, though money rules all things.
It is not the season to talk about reason,
Nor say that it’s loyalty, when the sword says it's treason.

It conquers the crown too, the grave and the gown too
It raises the Godi and then pulls him down too
No thulur can guide it, no law can decide it
In temple or state, 'til the sword sanctified it

He that can tower, or he that is lower,
Would be judged a fool if he laid down his power.
Take books and rent 'em, who can invent 'em,
When all that the sword says "Negator argumentum"

Your brave college-butlers must stoop to the sutlers;
‘Cos there's not a library like to the cutlers'.
But the blood that was spilt sir hath all of the guilt, sir
And thus have I run my sword up to the hilt, sir

credits

from Difficult Second Album, released August 1, 2022
Trad. Arranged by Lester (Stephen McGreal), with a bit of help from Kasimir (Neil Albrechtsen). Inspired by the arrangement by Show of Hands.

Neil Albrechtsen: Vocals, bass, recorder
Stephen McGreal: Vocals, guitar
Sam Ebrahim: Viola
Neil McMahon: Violin
Jak Perks: Bodhran

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