[i. The Emperor]

[Verse 1]
Standing in the space
That holds the silent lace of night
Away from you
You think that you can hold
The searing, molten gold
Between your, fingers
But it, slips through, tearing
Tendons as it goes
Exposing the white of a knuckle
Flesh and metal forming letters in the mould

[Verse 2]
Cradling your gun
After choosing the ones
You think should, die
Lying on the hill
Crawling over the windowsill
Into your, living room
They stare out, glass-eyed
Aimless heads
Bodies torn by vultures
You are the man whose hands are rank with the, smell of death
[Chorus]
Saviour of the Fallen!
Protector of the Weak!
Friend of the Tall Ones!
Keeper of the Peace!
Ah, but it is the only way you know

[Verse 3]
Looking out to sea
A flattened plane of weed
Which bear no living
You crush life in your fist
As your heart is kissed
By the lips of, death
Ghosts betray you, ghosts betray you, in the
Night, they steal your eye from its socket
And the ball hangs fallen on your cheek

[Verse 4]
Complaining tongues are stilled
A thousand mouths are filled
With rusting, metal
Your face a shade of green
Somehow you try to speak
Through all the, garbage in your mouth!
But it won't come out, and you
Cannot frame the words as your step-son
Throws your fame into the flames and you are burned
[Chorus]
Saviour of the Fallen!
Protector of the Weak!
Friend of the Tall Ones!
Keeper of the Peace!
Ah, but it is the only way you know

[ii. The Room]

[Guitar Solo: Robert Fripp]

[Bridge]
Live by sword and you shall die so
All your power shall come to naught
Every life you take is part of your own
Death, not power, is what you've bought

[Guitar Solo: Robert Fripp]

[Verse 5]
Cringing in your room
Now the outriders of doom
Step on your, threshold
Begging for your life
As the impartial knife
Sinks in your, screaming flesh!
Without malice, merely
Taking murder's toll, you must, pay the price of hate
And that price is your soul
[Outro]
Live in peace or die forever
In your war room