Away Video (MV)

A knight in shiny armor was out looking for a cup
Because he didn't want to grow up
A girl says to a boy don't leave me here alone
But when he sees her face he's turned to stone
And the queen Victoria's crying her eyes out in a mirror
Afraid that she has made one last fatal error

After all the kings both new and old are dead
And the rest of the court has gone to bed
Shakespeare's in a corner tierd of thinking up new ways
To kill off all the heroes in his plays
While the gatekeepers are watching from over the walls
To keep the other puppets locked in their golden halls

And the magistrate's daughter has run away from home
Escaping through the catacombs
She asks herself do all roads lead to Rome
Or do they all lead away

The windmills are stone giants before the minds reprise
Barren tombs stand as centuries
The starving population's eaten what it's been fed
And are chanting off with his head
This masquerade of a crusade Has morphed into a funeral parade

All the pretty people are applying perceived truth
In a battle to reclaim their wasted youth
You can wander in the desert finding someone to blame
Till all of the scarecrows look the same
While they're busy choosing which clothes to wear
The girl from the tower has cut off all her hair

And there's posers on the steeple singing praises to a lord
In hopes of gaining real estate
They now can't afford
But the preacher won't shut up and they're all getting bored
As they waste away

If this is the promised land
It isn't what I planned
Her face is unfamiliar so nearby
Take my hand and tell me things that I don't understand
Should I turn the other cheek or a blind eye
She casts aside her secrets in a heap
As someone gives away all the advice they can't keep

Reason has taken all the things that it could steal
As it sorts through what is and isn't real
The last shreds of meaning have been lost in the debris
Where all drains empty out into the sea
There's nothing left to discern
Past the point of no return

There wherever there is at last
But the moonlight it is fading fast
Now we're thinkin bout tomorrow and living in the past
And today is so far away