Darby's Castle-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:Darby's Castle] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:Broken Freedom Song: Live From San Francisco] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darby's Castle - Kris Kristofferson [00:16.20]See the ruin on the hill [00:19.35]Where the smoke is hanging still [00:22.50]Like an echo of an age long forgotten [00:28.71]There's a story of a home [00:32.01]Crushed beneath those blackened stones [00:35.08]And a roof that fell [00:36.74]Before the beams were rotten [00:41.49]See Saul Darby loved his wife [00:44.65]And he laboured all his life [00:47.95]To provide her with material possessions [00:54.45]And he built for her a home [00:57.65]Of the finest wood and stone [01:01.02]And the building soon [01:02.71]Became his sole obsession [01:07.46]Oh it took three hundred days [01:10.41]For the timber to be raised [01:13.88]And the silhouette was seen for miles around [01:20.11]And the gables reached as high [01:23.27]As the eagles in the sky [01:26.55]But it only took one night [01:28.96]To bring it down [01:33.08]When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground [01:52.49]Though the shared a common bed [01:55.46]There was precious little said [01:58.64]In the moments that [02:00.19]Were set aside for sleeping [02:05.02]For his busy dreams were filled [02:08.15]With the rooms he'd yet to build [02:11.35]And he never heard young [02:13.48]Helen Darby weeping [02:18.05]Then one night he heard a sound [02:22.21]As he laid his pencil down [02:24.67]And he traced it to her door [02:27.43]And turned the handle [02:30.82]And the pale light of the moon [02:34.14]Through the windows of the room [02:37.43]Split the shadows [02:38.70]Where two bodies lay entangled [02:48.09]Oh it took three hundred days [02:51.25]For the timber to be raised [02:54.55]And the silhouette was [02:56.37]Seen for miles around [03:00.81]And the gables reached as high [03:04.04]As the eagles in the sky [03:07.21]But it only took one night [03:09.87]To bring it down [03:13.81]When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground