Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
There is a demon
An evil mind
Inside us
Oh I know, I know
We all know the rules
When water will be shed
The wicked witch is
This is the end of all the miracles
Farewell to you yellow brick road
Everything she is asking for
It all belongs to her
Now she's gone into nothingness
There she waits
Still I can hear her singing in the room
In the room I know she's gone
I've thought "She'll never fail,
All magic will be gone
The day she'll melt away"
This is the end of all the miracles
Still I hear her singing in the dark
Truth has changed, her voice it stays the same
Farewell to you yellow brick road
Still I hear her singing in the dark
While time goes on her voice will fade away
"They are all, they're everything, they are mine
Silver shoes you're mine, you are mine,
You are mine"
Hate will live on
This is the end of all the miracles
Farewell to you yellow brick road
The wicked witch is dead
An evil mind
Inside us
Oh I know, I know
We all know the rules
When water will be shed
The wicked witch is
This is the end of all the miracles
Farewell to you yellow brick road
Everything she is asking for
It all belongs to her
Now she's gone into nothingness
There she waits
Still I can hear her singing in the room
In the room I know she's gone
I've thought "She'll never fail,
All magic will be gone
The day she'll melt away"
This is the end of all the miracles
Still I hear her singing in the dark
Truth has changed, her voice it stays the same
Farewell to you yellow brick road
Still I hear her singing in the dark
While time goes on her voice will fade away
"They are all, they're everything, they are mine
Silver shoes you're mine, you are mine,
You are mine"
Hate will live on
This is the end of all the miracles
Farewell to you yellow brick road
The wicked witch is dead
Lyrics submitted by Shadowbitch
Wicked Witch Lyrics as written by Jon Schaffer Hans Juergen Kuersch
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"There is a demon An evil mind Inside us Oh I know, I know We all know the rules When water will be shed The wicked witch is...."
Here Hansi sets the tone for the rest of the song. He alludes to the fact that most people have heard some version of the tale of the Wicked Witch's demise; "We all know the rules", but he laments the flippant disregard all children are raised to have for her, making us seem like the cold and cruel ones; "There is a demon, an evil mind, inside us"
"This is the end of all the miracles Farewell to you yellow brick road"
With the passing of the Wicked Witch, the magic of nature dissolves forever. In the allegorical sense which many interpret the novel, the purity of nature must be sacrificed in favor of industry, population growth, and manifest destiny. The violent, yet pure witch of the West, though heartless at times, embodies all the magic in nature, destructive but also beautiful. In an ironic twist, it is her magic that allows us to feel the magic and fantasy we experience as children. We must bid farewell to the yellow brick road and the positive aspects of magic upon her passing.
"Everything she is asking for It all belongs to her"
The silver shoes (they were silver in the novel as well) belonged to her deceased sister (who was also "wicked"). Presumably, she is the rightful heir to these possessions. Hansi is pointing out that, despite how we've been brought up to feel about the witch, she did in fact have rights to everything she had asked for. This is a metaphor for natures right to all it demands. Nature existed first, we destroy its purity and then bemoan nature when it doesn't conform to our demands.
"Truth has changed, her voice it stays the same"
This is another interesting line in the song. Humans have rewritten history countless times. The wrath of nature is always judged by how it affects our lives. We only revere nature when it's pleasant, never when it brings death and destruction to our species. Despite this, objectively speaking, nature has always been this way. In other words, her voice (the Wicked Witch) is changeless and eternal.
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