[Verse 1:]
Common fortune seeks us all
And slips our binding rings
We'll turn our heads
And make us reel
We'll bare our arms as wings
Before our feet a feather drifts
Beyond us it will fall
Cause time will bid and make us rise
[Chorus:]
Make ravens of us all
[Verse 2:]
My loved he breathed the air of kings
Yet fell beneath his luck
And in his heart a yearning yet
Before his time time shook
And all the gifts that god had gave
And those by fate denied
Gone to where all treasures laid
[Chorus:]
And where the raven flies
[Verse 3:]
Oh there are places I agree
Where I have yet to roam
The Egyptian field the arctic sea
Where shadows haunt and moan
But none but sky I have to go
Should I return to thee
Gone to where the feather flies
To eternity
But for a time I got more time
[Chorus:]
Till I a raven be
[Outro:]
Cause time will bid
And make us rise
Make ravens of us all
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