Page From the B. Lovell Dime Song Book, Vol. 4
"Web of the Empress"
Written by Port Sulphur Band
Publication December 10, 1896

They told me not to wait
They told me don't pretend
They told me it was fate
Then left me there for dead

They told me I was free
Then said to raise the dead
They told me I could leave
But what won't break must bend

For I am the night
Cry of the swan
You are the silence
And I am the song

This grave is a cradle
And I am no pawn
I am the sunset
And this is the dawn

The Spider takes a Queen
A game you've never played
I say a prayer for you
And leave you there for dead

You taught me how to kill
I showed you how to die
Not just your blood was spilled
For what won't break will rise

And we are the night
Cry of the swan
You are the silence
And we are the song

This grave is a cradle
But I am no pawn
We are the sunset
And this is the dawn

This grave is a cradle