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Full band version also available on Black Fortress of Opium's album "Stratospherical"

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Some 700 steps up to the summit
Some 700 steps if you can climb it
Atop, Acröenon
Afyonkarahisar

It’s a testament to reach the summit
You’re a soldier if you can climb it
Stones white, from below
But what can fools who see from afar know

You can build castles in the sky
So lovely on high
Yes you can
So high up and far from ground
So many enemies to crush down
Yes you can

Locked inside is something ecstatic
Instinct bides you to protect
Dark, but I will defend
It to the death

Battle cry, hymn of the solemn
Oh the glory in a flower
Early June, with poppies
In full bloom

You can build castles in the sky
So lovely on high
Yes you can
So high up and far from ground
So many enemies to crush down
Yes you can

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from Beautiful Boot Leg - Live at Rick Walker's, released December 23, 2014
Ajda the Turkish Queen: vocals, mandolin
Recorded at Rick Walker's in Boston, MA
Mastered by Will Kennedy at Studio P

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Ajda the Turkish Queen Somerville, Massachusetts

The Tea Queue, Lone Star of the East, Black Fortress of Opium frontwoman. Ajda the Turkish Queen has been compared to Thalia Zedek, Cat Power, Siouxsie Sioux, Courtney Love, Nico, and Aimee Mann, and appeared on bills with acts such as Soriah, Franz Ferdinand, Serena Maneesh, Andrew Bird, Gary Lucas, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Dresden Dolls, His Name is Alive, & more. ... more

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