T. Rex — The Children of Rarn Suite

We are the children of Rarn We've trodden the vales of the sun The child will cry On swans they fly We are the children of Rarn We are the seekers of space We've seen our Master's face It's young, gold and silvery old We are the seekers of Space, hm Youth seer lend me your ear The Dworn dawn approaches and the darkness is near The children in song brought Rarn to my head The beach is a-shaking and the old time is dead The scales of the sky are broken in song And go to the temple and blow on your horn Tree Wizard, the priest is summoning Swan King, the priest is summoning Pure Tongue, the priest is summoning Ancient One, the priest is summoning Oh, oh Doo da, doo da, doo da Doo da, doo da, doo da Doo da, doo da, doo da Oh, oh Tree Wizard, the priest is summoning Swan King, the priest is summoning Ancient One, the priest is summoning Pure Tongue, the priest is summoning Oh, oh Doo da, doo da, doo da Doo da, doo da, doo da Doo da, doo da, doo da Oh, oh, oh Baptillicas Caste, the whip-lord of Dworn Laughed in the wind at the sound of the horn But fools are young and their magic is weak If they live in the taverns and sleep in the street Do do do do do, do do do do, do do do do Do do do do do, do do do do, do do do do Do do do do do The elders abide beneath the Forest of Fire On the one side the Furnace, on the other the Mire Of Lithonic waste and the stagnant streams That darken your passions and changeth your dreams Do do do do do, do do do do, do do do do Do do do do do, do do do do, do do do do Do do do do do The Trolls from the hill Looked down from the mound It was the morning of war And there wasn't a sound Do do do do do, do do do do, do do do do Do do do do do, do do do do, do do do do Do do do do do [Spoken] Agadinmar, he goes to the top of the mound that overlooks the battle. He sings a [...] to Rarn, the one god, and this is the song that he sings Beltane, humane, you'll come again Beltane, humane, you'll come again Beltane, humane, you'll come again To this earth Beltane, humane, you'll come again Beltane, humane, you'll come again Beltane, humane, you'll come again To this earth Oh my darling, hm, hm Beltane, humane, you'll come again To this earth [Spoken] The enemy cometh in the procession of war We are Dworns, devil born Swords of steel will deliver us On our steeds of solid wind Machine god-kings, we are Dworns We are Lithons, old as Earth We knew no death, we knew no birth We are Lithons, dragon breed At noon today on flesh we'll feed We are Trolls, from marrow mound We live on bones when bones are found Underground our lairs are wide If you want bones, please come inside We are Dworns, devil born Swords of steel will deliver us On our steeds of solid wind Machine god-kings, we are Dworn We are Dworn We are Dworn [Spoken] The battle goes awry for the Peacelings. And bloody and torn Agadinmar goes to future mound and sings a [payon?] of faith to his God, asking for change, a change of the situation, a change of the times. This is the song Rarn, Rarn, ah Rarn, Rarn, ah We mean you no harm From the Book of Time I chant these lines Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn We mean you no harm From the Book of Time I chant these lines Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn, ah Rarn, Rarn Vapours of change, fogs are formed, do do do do Come o ye Darkness, darken the dawn, do do do do Winds of the future, storms of the past Meet in the meadows, embrace at last Oh, and cause change Again Vapours of change, fogs are formed, do do do do Come o ye Darkness, darken the dawn, do do do do Winds of the future, storms of the past Meet in the meadows, embrace at last Oh, and cause change We are Lithons, we cause death We eat Dworns and we hate their breath On their wheels that turn around We eat Dworns we bring them down We are Trolls, we eating bones We eat Dworns, we like their toes Their fingers if they're firm and round There's death today on the marrow mound We are Lithons, we cause death We eat Dworns and we hate their breath On their wheels that turn around We eat Dworns we bring them down Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn You know we mean you no harm From the Book of Time We chant these lines Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn We mean you no harm From the Book of Time We chant these lines Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn Rarn, Rarn The cloud of fate has a Lithon's boss Ended their future and gobbled their past As the Trolls unmount with their teeth blood red Feed on the remnants and dream of their beds They all vanish away on a Chariot of Fate And the creatures of legend disappeared through the gate While the Children of Rarn with their world all free Prayed on their knees for what had to be Then the priest of God changes the name From "Beltane" to "Earth," in a shower of reign And the tribe kneel to pray, then they kneel again They're no longer Peacelings, they have a new name, "Men" The last of the creatures, the animals of Rarn Disappeared through the gate in the afternoon calm Then a lone unicorn waited to feast On the last day of Beltane with the ancient high priest Then old Agadinmar sang again from the book And the egg of a Lithon he also took And placed it high in the heat of the sun And as the beast and the priest departed the dinosaurs began Oh We are the children of Rarn We've trodden the vales of the Sun The child will cry On swans they fly We are the children of Rarn And we are the seekers of Space We've seen our Master's face It's young and gold and silvery old We are the seekers of Space We are the children of Rarn We've trodden the vales of the Sun The child will cry On swans they fly We are the children of Rarn And we are the seekers of Space We've seen our Master's face It's young and gold and silvery old We are the seekers of Space