Paul Shapera
The Messianic Twins
Cery & Yery:
We cowered in their abbeys in dim isolation
Their caged child prophets, their poisoned salvation
We cowered together two stars in rotation
The warm light, the hapless lamb’s last consolation
Cery:
When kingdoms fall, empires one and all, the lands we had built were lost
Our species left on the brink of death, and our long golden age now gone
Yery:
The thing that saved, rescued our racе, a new faith, religion arose
Cеry:
By missionary and conquest were we then united and into the future we go
Cery & Yery:
A monk one day, taking mushrooms, proclaimed a date when two twins would be born
It would be their fate to one day save our race
Cery:
The world we all adore
Yery:
Years went by til right on that time, twins as the monk had spoke
Cery:
Were born and thus, those twins they were us, and that’s when the trouble arose
Yery:
Always kept cloistered and fenced in abbeys and cells locked shut
Cery:
Taught by priests as the church disagreed on what they should do with us
Cery & Yery:
Factions fought, and coups were wrought, cults rose and splintered, and wars
Waged and raged while we sat away in our cage
Cery:
Huddled together for warmth
Cery & Yery:
We cowered in their abbeys in dim isolation
Their caged child prophets, their poisoned salvation
We cowered together two stars in rotation
The warm light, the hapless lamb’s last consolation
Cery:
A workshop once in the summer months and Yery made this for me
A music box when you open up, plays a tune that I wrote once to sing him to sleep
Yery:
As teens we wrote a manifesto, and tried to get it smuggled out
Cery:
But the church suppressed our text, and they kept moving us late in the night all about
Yery:
Some had said that only our deaths would bring this salvation to light
Cery:
And others said, that losing our heads would end all this turmoil and fights
Cery & Yery:
One cult though had read what we wrote, and came in a blaze of guns
Many died but we, were taken and freed and put in a ship and sent up
To sit in space where we would be safe, but one day the Kratu they came
Took us away to this place to be slaves
Cery:
And that is why we are with you today