Sanctuary Rig - Just for the Record lyrics

I was on first-name terms with Gods and Queens But you negated that, you said you didn't need it I was the monkey wrench in all your schemes But I was always short and, God, you made me feel it No turning back, no magic wand I broke my gaesa without trying And if we had a sacred bond How could we leave each other crying? You were not the only one Who suffered in the war Unspoken poems and broken bones I've never seen their like before I was not the only one Who couldn't quite let go Let the record show... You were the magistrate of all my songs And they were always keen to play the role you cast them You were the clerk collating all my wrongs And when the court resumed you couldn't quite see past them Delusional come closing time I had no voice for my confusion The k**ing floor, your mask sublime I preferred the safety of delusion! I should not have knelt beneath The monument of shame I should not have nursed the dæmon Fed him and apportioned blame I should not have forced the hand Of fortune, now I know Let the record show... Must I fall into the madness of confessing And obsessing over things I cannot change? Must I walk into the sadness of remembrance Independence doesn't always quiet your pain But I never meant to break you down Lonely rider in a one-horse town My reputation as a faded clown Is keeping me from sleep at night I toss and turn I don't know where to go I know it wasn't right to blight you But somebody had to show That everything is torn Long before that bitter morn I know... O bleak inspector of my tapestries If I dropped a stitch I knew that you'd be waiting You ask me why should you go on your knees Just because my ego needs fellating And when I made to abdicate You shot the guards and stormed the palace When Wonderland broke up the band You found me playing draughts with Alice You and I should not have fallen Victim to the curse I only tried to live a lie ‘Cos honesty is so much worse Fair to say I rue the day I dealt the final blow Let the record show...