Magna Charter - Rick Wakeman

Write the rules for the games we play

Carved in stone for a future time

Broken pieces thrown away

Broken pieces that are mine

Hope in words so nearly true

Peaceful times are long unseen

Promises I give to you

Only I know what they mean

Charter for a freedom lost

Made by man who knows not why

Leaving youth to count the cost

They only suffer times gone by

It would never be the same

If ruler lived beyond his past

He would have to live his game

And speed of truth is never fast

Should there ever be a charter

With words to change the course of man

To give us peace and hope and understanding

And take us back to where it all began

The sword is still the only answer

The loudest sound that can be heard

The scream of silence as the fear grows stronger

Hear the people

Cry to no-one

No-one hears their words

And so

Time moves on

A war

Waged in words

With Kings and Church and common man

But no winner

Or beginner

Can understand the battle plan

But the battle never lasts long

Even though it is an old song

And the singer never sings the same old verse

Turn the melody to war chant

Change the flowers into warplants

Kill them all

Just to swell the purse

Pray to the Father

Peace ever after

Only love

Up above

Glory to the war

So for peace we wage a war

As in war we fight for peace

Death to all, be rich or poor

Comes in such a bloody feast

Will they meet in a future time?

Will it happen yet again?

Only God knows the truth they say

Only He is ahead of our time

Where is the charter made for love?

Where is the charter for killing war?

Sadly hidden in the warrior’s glove

Making light for ever more

Magna Charter shows a path

Over which no truth can stray

Floating as a neutral craft along its way

Should there ever be a charter

With words to change the course of man

To give us peace and hope and understanding

And take us back to where it all began

The sword is still the only answer

The loudest sound that can be heard

The screams of silence as the fear grows stronger

Hear the people

Cry to no-one

No-one hears their words