We are the game pieces We see what comes to pass You can bury us in your earth Or plate us behind glass You think we're in the hands Of the frightened or the clever But the game pieces know And the game goes on forever It came about one night, mist was on the water Everything was still, still for miles around Darkness won her day but other eyes were watching Into the Lewis night from the water crawled a man All hands were lost as the vessel took on water Panic shook the decks leaving no-one in command He'd seen a velvet bag floating in the moonlight He lay alive and thankful that he had it in his hand Cutting of a knife, last words stifled The killer took his money and rifled through his clothes Then he found the bag with the many staring faces Holding up a figure now he swallowed hard and froze We are the game pieces We see what comes to pass You can bury us m your earth Or plate us behind glass You think we're in the hands Of the frightened or the clever But the game pieces know And the game goes on forever They caught up with a man many years later Blood still on has hands, thunder in his eye They bound him up in chains, pointed to the gallows He told the strangest tale on the day he was to die Told them of a sailor whose life he had taken Told them of the bag he'd committed to the clay Told them of the strange gods' black eyes shining They shivered then they said, in the ground is where they stay We are the game pieces We see what comes to pass You can bury us in your earth Or place us behind glass You think we're in the hands Of the frightened or the clever But the game pieces know And the game goes on forever Now digging on the land a crofter found a jacket Muddy torn and faded, just a purple hue Came across the pieces scattered in their chamber Like finding gold to the man without a shoe Valued as a lot the hammer moves them on and on Sold to a name, they stand and they wait Silent air around, none to touch them A law unto themselves only moved by hands of fate We are the game pieces We see what comes to pass You can bury us in your earth Or place us behind glass You think we're in the hands Of the frightened or the clever But the game pieces know And the game goes on forever