23 warriors and a King
Laid in blood when the battle has done
The price of a long due reckoning
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Old King Cole has paid the toll
Of the crimes levied upon his soul
The rebel blades have achieved their goal
Laid in blood when the battle has done
His mouth hangs open, his eyes are wild
With a gaping wound is his chest defiled
While 'round his split throne the dead lie piled
Laid in blood when the battle has done
23 warriors and Snow White
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Fought like the devil in the dead of night
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Believed in peace, yet marched to war
Shot through the heart, dead upon the floor
Covered in her own and her sister's gore
Laid in blood when the battle has done
With an army to lead and a war to win
Put the bullet to dozens of her own kin
Atoning for some vast and secret sin
Laid in blood when the battle has done
23 warriors and Rose Red
Laid in blood when the battle has done
While outside the door many more lay dead
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Her body lies in her wife's caress
Her face is free of her life's distress
Wearing the rags of her wedding dress
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Released from her cell, like the wrath of hell
The three little pigs to her anger, fell
But King Cole sounded her funeral knell
Laid in blood when the battle has done
23 warriors gone to rest
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Fought with the worst and died with the best
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Cinders saw her betrothed at last
Her beauty untouched by the decades past
Then King Cole fired and it went too fast
Laid in blood when the battle has done
With the girl to whom through the years she'd sing
Dead at the hand of the thrice-damned king
She pierced his chest with her blood red ring
Laid in blood when the battle has done
Their bodies are still and their blood is cold
The book is closed and the story told
No happy ever after for a tale so old
Laid in blood when the battle has done