Manticore's Lullabye

May your dreams be all of sun
 And heated sand, and sky
 When you wake may all your singing
 Help your heart to fly
 May you never be closed in an amber cage
 With an amber lock and key
 May you roar and sing beneath the sun
 And the shade of the Upas tree
 Bear your tiny teeth, my child
 The sun will fall in love with you
 And teach you how to sting and roar
 And sing and kill, as fathers do.
 Turn your prayer to sky and sand
 Nomatter where you fall
 May the desert echoes teach you
 All their secret songs
 My amber cage had an amber lock
 And the girl had an amber key
 And a manticore was bound and sore
 In the city in the trees.
 My amber cage had an amber lock
 And the good girl a key of her own
 She set me free with a shining smile
 And far from all cages we roam
 May the desert echoes hold you
 In their ruddy paws
 May your prayer be heard by sky and sand
 Nomatter where you fall
 May you never be closed in an amber cage
 With an amber lock and key
 May you roar and sing beneath the sun
 And the shade of the Upas tree