Hawkwind Choose Your Masques

They've handed out the weapons

And your armour's ready too

But the most important item

Has been left up to you

You must make a firm decision

And once it's made you'll find

That the role that you have chosen

Will entirely fill your mind

For the mask you have selected

Stands for Chaos or for Law

And you cannot take it off now

'til you're no longer in the War

And the Masks of War are grinning

And from under them you howl

Out the slogans of the part you play

for the battle's starting now

Choose your Masks

The ranks are forming

Choose your Masks

The day is dawning

Choose your Masks

And choose the side that you'll be on

And learn the words of your new song

For the journey will be long.....

Over poisened crystal deserts

Where the ruined towers shout

In our mirrored flashing armour

In our secret hideous helms

Death to life! Death to air !

And death to fire ! Death to death !

Death to anger ! Death to light

and death to sadness !

On dead horses our dead riders

Seek the last retreats of life

On dead horses our dead riders

Seek the last retreats of life