Sixth day in the summer of June
On a night so lonely without a moon
a prince is born with a heart of stone,
and a gaze that freezes blood to bone
Ghostly shapes on tattered walls
It's you he seeks, it's you he calls
When his little fingers cross
watch your grief and wail your loss
This is love, this is my child
Heavens shivered when he smiled
A blinding hunger in his eyes
feast of flesh with hovering flies
Education is what he needs
for a story now he pleads
So I tell him a tale of terror
misjudgment, a willful error
School of Sin has opened gates
In the shadows the father waits
Not for him those age old rhymes
Feed him with some nursery crimes
Swindle, swindle, little scars,
silent howls from prison bars
Up above the hanged man dies
like the truth in a world of lies
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