Rooks-Shearwater

[ti:Rooks] [ar:Shearwater] [al:Rook] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rooks - Shearwater [00:30.77]When the rooks were laid in the piles [00:34.18]By the sides of the road [00:36.30] [00:40.05]Crashing into the aerials [00:42.99]Tangled in the laundry lines [00:45.24] [00:48.93]And gathered in a field [00:50.68]They were burned in a feathering pyre [00:55.00] [00:58.99]With their cold black eyes [01:02.68] [01:04.12]When the swallows fell from the eaves [01:07.81]And the gulls from the spires [01:11.62] [01:13.24]The starlings in millions [01:15.50]Would feed on the ground where they lie [01:18.68] [01:22.18]The ambulance men said [01:24.18]There's nowhere to flee for your life [01:29.80] [01:32.25]So we stay inside [01:36.57] [01:37.51]And we'll sleep until the world of man is paralyzed [01:45.47] [02:13.05]Oh the falconer awakes to the sound of the bells [02:18.68] [02:21.38]Overhead and southbound [02:25.57]They are leaving his life [02:27.19] [02:30.70]And each empty cage just rings in his heart like a bell [02:37.20] [02:39.07]Underneath these cold stars [02:41.94] [02:43.07]In this trembling light and he cries [02:49.94]Amen let their kingdom come tonight [02:53.13] [02:56.57]Let this dream be realized