Darby's Castle-Steve Hofmeyr

[ti:Darby's Castle] [ar:Steve Hofmeyr] [al:Sings Kris Kristofferson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Darby's Castle - Steve Hofmeyr [00:00.71]Written by：Kristoffer Kristofferson [00:01.10] [00:06.78]See the ruin on the hill [00:09.25] [00:10.43]Where the smoke is hanging still [00:12.59] [00:13.70]Like an echo of an age long forgotten [00:17.84] [00:20.45]There's a story of a home [00:22.39] [00:23.63]Crushed beneath those blackened stones [00:25.71] [00:26.74]And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten [00:31.11] [00:36.43]See Saul Darby loved his wife [00:39.00] [00:40.01]And he labored all his life [00:42.32] [00:43.36]To provide her with material possessions [00:47.48] [00:50.02]And he built for her a home [00:52.37] [00:53.19]Of the finest wood and stone [00:55.55] [00:56.60]And the building soon became his sole obsession [01:00.99] [01:06.39]Oh it took three hundred days [01:09.42]For the timber to be raised [01:12.24] [01:13.22]And the silhouette was seen for miles around [01:17.31] [01:19.95]And the gables reached as high [01:22.13] [01:22.95]As the eagles in the sky [01:25.80] [01:26.77]But it only took one night to bring it down [01:30.31] [01:33.24]When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground [01:37.32] [01:43.48]Though the shared a common bed [01:45.32] [01:46.40]There was precious little said [01:48.37] [01:49.65]In the moments that were set aside for sleeping [01:53.88] [01:56.38]For his busy dreams were filled [01:58.65] [01:59.46]With the rooms he'd yet to build [02:01.84] [02:03.27]He never heard young Helen Darby weeping [02:07.10] [02:12.98]Then one night he heard a sound [02:15.06] [02:17.00]As he laid his pencil down [02:18.45] [02:19.82]And he traced it to her door and turned the handle [02:23.46] [02:26.20]And the pale light of the moon [02:28.37] [02:29.40]Through the windows of the room [02:31.68] [02:32.64]Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled [02:36.81] [02:42.20]Oh it took three hundred days [02:45.55]For the timber to be raised [02:48.21] [02:49.13]And the silhouette was seen for miles around [02:53.40] [02:55.93]And the gables reached as high [02:58.24] [02:59.02]As the eagles in the sky [03:01.65] [03:02.52]But it only took one night to bring it down [03:06.34] [03:09.51]When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground