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Who will buy my flaming sword
Will wield it strong and broad
For loved ones are in our care
Adrift in a world unfair

Who will buy my flaming sword
Will wield it strong and broad

Cold is cold but all the pleasure's mine
A knight of love
And I will drink the wine

Who will take this burning rose
A symbol a spear of gold
And steadfast against the hours
Untouched by unearthly powers

Who will take this burning rose
A symbol a spear of gold

Cold is cold but all the pleasure's mine
A night of love
And I will drink the wine

Cold is cold but all the pleasure's mine
A knight of love
And I will drink the wine

Who will buy my flaming sword
Who will buy my flaming sword
Who will buy my flaming sword
My flaming sword...

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epiwoosh On Nov 18, 2018

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by potbelliedfool

5y ago

The speaker in the song-a young man evidently-realises his youthful idealism and passion and radicalism are going to be slowly eroded away by life and the passage of time. And no-ones even interested. And maybe even he doesn't really believe in it, 'buy' it, it's just another teenage angst pose, hence the overly exaggerated imagery of idealism, borrowed a bit from Jerusalem. I think the drunken episode alluded to is one of the cracks in the facade, the first small breach in the dam. Or sex and alcohol are a means of escaping the knowledge. I love the sly Sinatra allusion, which passed me by for years. Fantastic song.

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