Build a Chain
One two three, build a chain;
Make it strong, so it can last.
If it breaks, then start again;
Build a future from the past.
I am a page from my mother's best spell book;
I had no father, but only had her.
I am the one meant to bring our salvation,
Guiding us back to the way we once were.
I am the child that is born out of winter;
Mine is the road that runs forward and back.
Mine are the doors that are locked but marked 'enter',
Leading me down on this spiraling track.
Spells to buy and spells to steal,
Spells to harm and spells to heal,
Spells to find and to conceal,
I have to find them.
What we had and what we've lost,
What we paid's not worth the cost,
I'll uncross the bridges crossed,
Let me remind them, oh
Let me remind them it's
One two three, build a chain;
Make it strong, so it can last.
If it breaks, then start again;
Build a future from the past.
Four five six, this is true;
You can have what's been denied.
I can give it all to you.
All I ask is you decide.
I know the lessons of fear and of fire;
I've heard the stories, I know what I face.
Show me a sorcerer, show me a liar...
Or show me an ally in search of his place.
I am a mother, though I'm still a maiden,
Can my own mother be proud of me yet?
With danger and hardship the future is laden,
The penance for all that we've dared to forget.
Spells to break and spells to spin,
Spells to lose and spells to win,
Spells without and spells within,
I have to find them.
What we were and so much more,
Everything worth fighting for,
We can reach the future's door,
Let me remind them, oh
Let me remind them it's
One two three, build a chain;
Make it strong, so it can last.
If it breaks, then start again;
Build a future from the past.
Four five six, this is true;
You can have what's been denied.
I can give it all to you.
All I ask is you decide.
Seven's a secret and seven's a prize,
Seven's a future we'll yet realize,
Seven's the truth and the hopes and the lies,
Seven's the sun that is waiting to rise, oh,
Eight nine ten, time's a wheel,
If we dare to make the climb.
I believe these wounds can heal.
All we need is truth...and time.Written on: 2006-08-18. Seanan McGuire