Scythe & Spade Lyrics

On the blue-green rising, falling tideBreathing in the pebblesSighing out the salt breezeChaff is blowing from the stubble fieldsLeaving the dried earth land it threads the gateTun...Read Full Lyrics

The day flees the town with a drunkard's yellSilence from the slaughterhouseAnd the midnight bellShudders down Shambles alleySlamming shuttersAnd the market litter fliesNewspaper a...Read Full Lyrics

We look up, silentlyWithout quite musicMy face four days oldYou look newbornThere's fear in your frown, like mineNo distance awayNoticing your handHalf round my headAnd on my faceP...Read Full Lyrics

You stand beneath a racing skyYou don't know why you came toThe house of the heartYou sit amongst the whitered flowersBy the dry fountainsYou look at the barren world aroundThe hou...Read Full Lyrics

As a voice beneath the millpond sings>From her past the lost June days are wokenAnd wind across the gorse slopes callThrough years, where the darkness roarsUntil with wirl-pool pan...Read Full Lyrics

The sandstone manI feel my head fall to the groundGaping mouth and broken crownThe sandstone manThrough the bramble snakesThat scratched away my faceI see the clouds like blossom r...Read Full Lyrics

She swims the secret sea of sleeps cocoonIts soothing hands caress her dreams, she breathesShe tries to hold him in her armsBut sleep walks awayShe holds but light burns the dayUpo...Read Full Lyrics

There is a place where she would always beWhere the blossom snows between the cankered treesHolding his sour breathHe knows she's thereWatching the torrent as it flowsWatching her ...Read Full Lyrics

There was a man of double deedWho sowed his garden full of seedWhen the seed began to grow'Twas like a garden full of snowWhen the snow began to melt'Twas like a ship without a bel...Read Full Lyrics

The cold it penetrates so deepThe leaves cry drops of iceA fire guts the land inside himHe wonders what's it likeTo be in the sunshine with herThe wet material on his faceWith line...Read Full Lyrics