Verse 1 (Spoken-sung, contemplative) Well, they sent him to war when he was seventeen And isn't that the way it always goes? His father was an admiral, you know, The kind of man who dies for what he knows And Skip, well Skip fought like his father's son Until the battle smoke had cleared away But victory, my friend, is never free And the price was more than he could pay Verse 2 (Building slightly) So he turned from war to diplomacy Like a sinner turns toward the light He went looking for the colonies That had drifted in the endless night But there are always men with knives, my friend Who wait in shadows by the door And when they came for him that day He fell through a window to another shore Chorus (Haunting, repetitive) And now he's walking through No Man's Land Where there are no men, there are no women Just humans who have lost their names In a world that God has never seen He's walking through No Man's Land With death and wonder in his hands Looking for something he can't define In the silence of No Man's Land Verse 3 (More intense) There was a king without a kingdom there And a mage whose magic couldn't save A captain of a phantom guard Who led them to an ice-bound cave And Skip, he learned to kill again T hough killing was the thing he'd left behind Because sometimes you have to break your heart To keep from losing your mind Verse 4 (Reflective) The beasts were giant, the cold was deep The enemies came three by three But he stood undefeated in that place Like a tree beside a frozen sea He fought for strangers who became his friends In a land where nothing was the same And somewhere in that wilderness He learned to speak his secret name Final Chorus (Slow, profound) Yes, he's walking through No Man's Land Where the maps have all been torn in two Where the only truth that matters now Is the truth that's walking beside you He's walking through No Man's Land With his sword and his electric fire Looking for the thing he lost In the ashes of his father's pyre Outro (Whispered, fading) And maybe that's the way it has to be In No Man's Land... In No Man's Land... Where every man must find himself Or lose himself forever In No Man's Land...
