The soldiers standing on the shore

Shake up their golden shields

You watch them from your room

High on the city walls

In the distance on the shifting sea

A thousand colored sails

Is this the moment you made?

Is this the way that you planned?

You know it won't be long now

The finest treasures of kings

All of those precious things

They never tempted you

So as you stood in the ruins

How could you dare to look on?

As they burned for you

The broken pieces of clay

And the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue

You remember how it used to be

When you were just a girl

Nothing really mattered then

You can remember so well

How you used to hold your head so high

Those days will never return

The finest treasures of kings

All of those precious things

They never tempted you

So as you stood in the ruins

How could you dare to look on?

As they burned for you

The broken pieces of clay

And the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue

Dust is drifting in the evening air

Across the field below

The silver mirror, you hold

Will never tell

You turn your face away

The finest treasures of kings

All of those precious things

They never tempted you

So as you stood in the ruins

How could you dare to look on?

As they burned for you

The broken pieces of clay

And the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue

The broken pieces of clay

And the palest eyes, painted in Trojan blue