700 Years On

A country splintered by religion

Torn by anarchy

Heretics burned for their derision of the holy See

Seven hundred years on

World, do you recall

Just what happened then

Gentlemen and Gentlewomen

Let into the pyre

Seven hundred years ago

Let's think

Images of war

Flashing swords, burning homes

The Albigensian Crusade

See the ruins upon the hills

Just seven hundred years on

So now in nineteen eighty nine

How much do we know

Except for learned scholars

No-one knows at all

Blind

Apathy

Forgotten

A part of history

Flashing swords, burning homes

The Albigensian Crusade

See the ruins upon the hills

Just seven hundred years on

To blind to see that religion's free

Believe what you believe

Established Churches still don't agree

Seven hundred years on

Heresy a different route

From mother church in Rome

See us, we're hurting no-one

Why can't you leave us alone

Hunted

Persued

Burnt

Marched into the fire

Oh, then!