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The ship of jesters

from The Jester's Quest in the City of Glass by Lyrian

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lyrics

Fit the Last: The Ship of Jesters

Narrator: Once the Scarlet Jester and the Green Knight are aboard the ship, sail is set and the vessel begins to move away from the City of Glass. Soon it becomes clear that the City stands indeed upon an island, one of many, scattered about in a great archipelago. The ship is crewed entirely by jesters, each wearing velvet of a different hue.

Jester: Surrounded by jesters I am the only knight
Though dressed as a questor they jest for my delight
And here I feel among true friends
My joy is real, my sorrow ends

A feast lies before me, the Scarlet Jester carves
A priest – they assure me no jester ever starves
With roast and wine we quip and joke
We boast and dine and sip and smoke

Then I tell them all of my adventures, each battle
The jesters all lay down their spoons
With shreds of priest caught in my dentures I prattle
Of mermaids and wizards and moons

I tell of the flower which bade me seek the earth
The arrow whose power devoured my heart and mirth
And now I crave the heart I lack
To make me brave and bring joy back

‘Perhaps I can help you,’ the Scarlet Jester cries
As he reaches into his red trews
And gropes around a bit then to everyone’s surprise
Draws out a pair of old running-shoes

‘Try one of these – it has odours to impart
Like a rat that’s three weeks dead!’
‘That is not a heart,’ I tell him with a start
‘I quite disagree,’ says the man in red
‘For, surely, the heart is nothing but a pump ...’

Narrator: There is a moment of silence.

Jester: ‘I do not understand,’ I tell him.

Narrator: Sir Jester opens the hatch in his breastplate and pushes the foul-smelling plimsoll inside. It fits perfectly. The armour of the knight falls away and the Jester stands again in his green velvet which quickly turns a deep yellow. He laughs. The Scarlet Jester laughs. All the jesters laugh. And as they laugh the ship sinks.

Crew of jesters: In the sea are mermaids
Mermen and merchildren
Serpents of the sea-depths
Shoals of shining dragons
Creatures named and nameless
Divers, jesters, monsters
All dissolve in water
Fall to earth as fragments

Jester: And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

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from The Jester's Quest in the City of Glass, released April 1, 2016

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Alison Felstead: bass, singing
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Edgar Wilde: drums, percussion

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