when the walls fall

from When the Walls Fall by The Weave and the Weft

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Recorded first half of July 2008 in London. Written after reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

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Now the sky is fallen in and there is no shelter left
in this scarred and ragged hinterland

And I huddle in the waste of ash and snowdrifts
a land left for dead, its ribs jut out through eroded hillsides

And there’s a devil on the bluff, he peers through the dusky day
scans the charcoaled earth for refugees

Like seldom sheafs of wheat in a sea of husks, of chaff
threshed by a stubborn hand and ground to dust by a heavy millstone

I’ll wait for the stars to fade, then I’ll lay her down to sleep
in the bosom of the early morn

And then one day I’ll fall through a hole in the net
and I’ll end up a bum, down on my luck

And sound the faintest of cries, would you even notice?
as thin as these walls and floors have always been

When they take from me my home
like it never really was mine to call my own

The day it all goes to shit, and I go down too,
a wreck on the deck of a scuttled old hulk

When it finally happens, when the walls will all fall,
my body will be buried till my bones are naked and bare

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from When the Walls Fall, released January 1, 2010
Hugh - guitars, voice

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