Once Upon a Lost Cause

from Drawin' on the Walls Original Cast Recording by Drawin' on the Walls Original Cast

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THIS WORLD...
THIS PLACE I DREAMED IN MY MIND’S THE SETTING OF
A TALE I CALL:
“ONCE UPON A LOST CAUSE.”

ONCE UPON AN OCEAN CLIFF,
ONCE IN AN AGE THAT I FORGET,
THEN, THERE STOOD A CITY BUILT OF STONE.

A WIZARD CALLED THAT PLACE HIS HOME,
PROTECTING THE CITIZENS, AND YET -
HE HAD NO FRIENDS AND SO HE LIVED ALONE.
WITH HIS WAND HE COULD SUMMON LIGHTNING,
AND THE SKIES OBEYED HIS COMMAND.
BUT THE PEOPLE FOUND HIM SO FRIGHT’NING -

THOUGH HE BORE THEM NO ILL WILL,
THEY REFUSED TO UNDERSTAND.
PEACE WAS NOT TO LAST FOR LONG -
ONE DAY THE PEOPLE HEARD A ROAR,
HERALDING A DRAGON COMING FAST!
THE WIZARD WARNED THEM ALL TO FLEE,
HAVING ENCOUNTERED IT BEFORE.
HE KNEW THAT IF THEY FOUGHT, THEY WOULDN’T LAST.
THEY FAILED TO HEED THE WARNING HE MADE
SO ON THE DAY THE DRAGON CAME,
OUR HERO WENT TO BATTLE THE BEAST
BEFORE THE TOWN WAS LOST TO FLAME...
ONCE UPON A LOST CAUSE!

FOR THE STORM HAD CAUSED A COMMOTION...
YES, A TOWER FELL TO THE SEA!
SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST TO THE OCEAN!

BUT I MEANT NO ILL WILL...

I’M AFRAID WE DISAGREE...

SO THE PEOPLE BANISHED HIM,
OUT TO THE FOREST WHERE HE PINED
FOR THE CITY AND HIS OLD ROUTINES...
WHEN THE ROAR RETURNED ONE DAY,
HE LOOKED FROM A MOUNTAINTOP TO FIND
THE CITIZENS CONSTRUCTING WAR MACHINES.
HE TRIED TO CAST A SPELL TO ASSIST,
BUT FOUND HIS WAND HAD ALL BUT DRAINED.
WITHOUT THAT TINY BIT OF RESPECT
THE TOWNSMEN GAVE, HIS POWER WANED.
HE NEEDED FRIENDS AND LOVE FOR HIS SPELLS,
BUT NOW HIS WAND WOULD NOT OBEY.
AND SO, HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO WATCH
THE TOWN HE LOVED BE BURNT AWAY...
ONCE UPON A LOST CAUSE.

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from Drawin' on the Walls Original Cast Recording, released August 31, 2013

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