The Dragon's Cave (FAWM 2026-3)
Words and music by Joe Ficklin
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Among the peaks of Shkhara / Where snowcaps brush the sky
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Past wilderness and rivers cold / The bones of heroes lie
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For stories reached the halls of men / In palaces they've spread
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That all who face the dragon fierce / Are found among the dead
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Kings and ministers in robes / Sent out a new decree
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Gather hope and send her forth / And heroes you shall be
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Defeat the wyrm and win reward / A noble's title seek
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If you should best the fearsome beast / That dwells on mountain peak
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Many answered to the call / Those who wished to win
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And set away for Colchis Pass / Amidst the cheers they'd grin
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But miles crossing lonely plains / And weeks spent on the trail
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Knowing not if they'd return / And dying should they fail
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Enter into the dragon's cave / And question why you're here
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It does not matter just how brave / Or you prepared appear
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Can you face the dragon down / And stare into it's eyes
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The truth will out in dragon's cave / A dragon never lies
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He came with armor lined with gold / Sword and spear in hand
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He came with party loud and bold / They crossed the lonesome land
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They found the trail to dragon's cave / Lined with whitened bone
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And heard the torrent on the rocks / The river's ceaseless moan
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At dragon's cave he entered in / The pathway rough and dark
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Ad dragon's cave they entered in / As one produced a spark
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In dragon's cave they ventured down / Into the monster's den
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From dragon's cave not one came out / Of all the boasting men
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Enter into the dragon's cave / And question why you're here
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It does not matter just how brave / Or you prepared appear
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Can you face the dragon down / And stare into it's eyes
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The truth will out in dragon's cave / A dragon never lies
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And so it went year after year / The heroes would arrive
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To enter into dragon's cave / But none returned alive
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The fearsome dragon slew them each / With no regard at all
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Yet to this day new fools set out / Believing they can't fall
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It does not matter just how rich / Or poor or scared or brave
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The time will come when each must face / The test at dragon's cave
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When life is ebbing, courage fails / We stare into abyss
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The truth, a dragon we confront / There's no escape from this
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Enter into the dragon's cave / And question why you're here
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It does not matter just how brave / Or you prepared appear
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Can you face the dragon down / And stare into it's eyes
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The truth will out in dragon's cave / A dragon never lies