Barron Brady - Earthen Key | Текст песни

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• Barron Brady
• Earthen Key

Where will we go when we’ve left our shore and home?
How will we adapt, stretch the skin to match the bone?
Set an ugly precedent, accommodate insane
Put the earth in a body bag and throw her life away

We leave through the door of the earth and the sea
Life from farm and fisherman of plough and earthen key
Sea opener all her jewels are there
As if we owned them all. What do I care?

Locked up in her glaciers she guards her realm of gold
Element of life and thirst quencher old
She cooks our food and feeds us
And makes the green to shine
Can't make steel from lakes of milk or paper from old wine

We change the course of rivers blood
To steal the course of gold
Strip the forests from the soil all for our hungry soul
You who once needed her now you’re not so sure
Put her in a body bag and throw her skin and all

Where will we go when we’ve left our shore and home
How will we adapt, stretch the skin to match the bone
Set an ugly precedent, accommodate insane
Put the earth in a body bag and throw her life away

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More precious than my own dear life is what she gave to me
Promise of regeneration and infinity
Twig, leaf, alders, rust and green
The tangle of an oaken head - belonging here

Where will we go when we’ve left our shore and home
How will we adapt, stretch the skin to match the bone
Set an ugly precedent, accommodate insane
Put the earth in a body bag and throw her life away

[‘Decked with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through
Wiry heath packs, flitches of fern
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn’]