THE SERPENT’S MOON 

 song lyrics by Joel Sattler and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Based on the poem “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

The stately pleasure dome decree

Where Alph the sacred river ran

Down caverns measureless to man

Down to a wild and sunless sea

To find the place where life began

It was a feared forbidden land

Lit by a strange illuminance

A place where dragons go to dance

Under the

Serpent’s moon

Serpent’s moon

Serpent’s moon

Serpent’s moon

That’s how I remember her

A damsel with a dulcimer

In a vision once I saw

Where she was singing to her God 

It was a strange Druidic place

Full of a wild and savage grace

A hidden country underground

Where history cannot be found

And when the moon is full outside

The Xanadans come out at night

You’ll find yourself in a dream unwanted

Memory will ere be haunted

They will raise the Devil’s spawn

And dance until the break of dawn

You’ll be bewitched you can not move

And to retell you’ll never prove

That you were there where you almost fell

Over the edge, the edge of hell

You’ll wonder if insanity

Is how the world was meant to be

That is when you will discover

When the spell comes on you then

And you will hear the wild eye woman

Wailing for her demon lover

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