taH pagh taHbe'

[bnewman]

Based on Star Trek VI.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock

 

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/ Em B7 Em (E7) / / Am E7 Am (F#7) /[1. F# F#7 B7 - :/[2. B7 ... / 

 

Is this the people that I fought for?

Is this the banner I held high?

Our ancestors never asked for quarter

Nor will I!

 

Now we stand ready to surrender

As I predicted all along

Wasn't it yesterday when we were strong?

 

/ EmAm EmB7 / / EmAm EmAm Em E7 / Am7 D7 GM7 G6 / F#m7 B7 Em ... /

 

taH pagh taHbe'

taH pagh taHbe'

When did we grow weak?

Honor turns overnight to ashes

Crumbling even as we speak

 

Here stands the leader of an Empire

For which so many leaders died

Will you still have the strength to lead us

When worlds collide?

 

Drink to your undiscovered country

That's not the future that I choose

Don't think that you have nothing left to lose!

 

taH pagh taHbe'

taH pagh taHbe'

We have so far to fall

To be or not to be's the question

That now preoccupies us all

 

I struck for honor and for country

But someone else has to take the blame

Weren't my people always ready

To curse your name?

 

As an opponent I admire you

But I won't be facing you today

I'm only getting you out of the way

 

taH pagh taHbe'

taH pagh taHbe'

No peace in our time!

How do you think you're going to stop me

When you must answer for my crime?

 

Diplomats barter lives by inches

That's not the epitaph for me

I still prefer to die in battle

Proud and free!

 

You still have hope of buying peace here

But first you have to win my war

Captain, it's time to even up the score!

 

taH pagh taHbe'

taH pagh taHbe'

Once more unto the breach!

We both see the future that we fight for

Hovering just beyond our reach