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Sky heavy as bell rope is ringing the changes
August has cried in her swell-bellied labors
She climbs up the steeple and waits for the chime
Halos of rain on the conifers shine
Halos of rain on the conifers shine
I'd like the world to stop just for one morning
And tell me the hour now this kingdom is falling
The livery's decked and the courtiers are bloody
And lilies grow now from his mouth and his body
And I could pound nettles 'til my hands were blistered
But swans crowd the lake and I'm not their sister
In peddlers once we were brave sailormen
One, two, we fell and then we stood again
In peddlers once we were brave sailormen
One, two, we fell and then we stood
I want to be grand to mourn as an actor
Playing a bit part so I don't have to feel this
Extend my arm graciously, sipping in silence
Bone china behind a veil so not to feel this
And I search without walls and I search without finding
I search like a blind man with fortune to guide me
In peddlers once we were brave sailormen
One, two, we fell and then we stood again
In peddlers once we were brave sailormen
One, two, we fell and then we stood
Roots pale in September and tender as memory
Seed in the rooftops and bloom in the belfry
Silent in amber that once wintertide
We slept safe as houses, my brother and I
We slept safe as houses, my brother and I