The Dark Crystal

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Another world...

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another time...

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in the age of wonder.

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A thousand years ago,
this land was green and good...

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until the Crystal cracked.

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For a single piece was lost...

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a shard of the Crystal.

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Then strife began...

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and two new races appeared:

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the cruel Skekses...

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the gentle Mystics.

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Here in the castle of the Crystal,
the Skekses took control.

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Now the Skekses gather
in the sacred chamber...

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where the Crystal hangs
above a shaft of air and fire.

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The Skekses, with their hard
and twisted bodies...

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their harsh and twisted wills.

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For a thousand years
they have ruled...

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yet now there are only ten.

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A dying race
ruled by a dying emperor...

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imprisoned within themselves
in a dying land.

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Today, once more
they gather at the Crystal...

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as the first sun climbs to its peak...

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for this is the way of the Skekses,

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As they ravage the land...

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so, too, they learn
to draw new life from the sun.