Music and lyrics by J Stephen Roberts

 

Midnight wind beats the walls of

Zahara Overthrown, bloody rain marks her

Her eyes, blue-green as Visigothic steel

Blue-green fire for an ancient zeal

 

Chorus:

All that I've wanted to rouse in the world is now

The battered shore crumbling to the rushing sea

Beneath a churning sky

This is the thing that now moves me to rise

 

King storms the high walls of Almería

El Zagal's banner in the sea beneath her

And through Granada's halls

Each stern resilient heart

Like a stone tower lined atop a wall

 

Chorus 2:

Gray in the sky like the image we leave behind

Gone cold and turning old but we want them still

We stagger on and on

The fortunate few will rouse before they're gone

 

Dawn's break the gate falls in Al-Andalus

Altar raised in the Alhambra's golden gloom

Three blasts of a canon, the howling through the town

What was whispered in the heart now a victory shout

 

(Chorus)

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