Evening Over Rooftops-Edgar Broughton Band

[ti:Evening Over Rooftops (2001 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Edgar Broughton Band] [al:Out Demons Out - The Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.21]Evening Over Rooftops (2001 Digital Remaster) - Edgar Broughton Band [00:02.21] [00:45.77]The air was thick like honey [00:48.42] [00:49.52]Looking from the room [00:51.93] [00:53.05]The room had open windows [00:56.51]To let the springtime through [00:59.55] [01:00.51]Evening stood by watching [01:03.25] [01:03.80]At the side of summer's promise [01:06.98] [01:07.72]The flowers in her garden [01:10.67] [01:11.38]Were the envy of her friends [01:14.43] [01:15.41]How far are we from dying [01:18.01] [01:18.86]Is it nearly at an end [01:21.65] [01:22.64]How far are we from dying [01:25.40] [01:26.07]Is it nearly at an end [01:28.93] [01:30.10]The smoke hung on the skyline [01:32.76] [01:33.54]The city fell in silence [01:36.69] [01:37.38]The sunset ripe and mellow [01:39.98] [01:40.57]Was the light to write some thoughts by [01:44.03] [01:44.55]Her children watched for father [01:47.25]From their window in the wall [01:50.57] [01:52.11]Said a prayer for grandpapa [01:55.31]And maybe many more [01:57.47] [01:59.06]Somewhere in the distance [02:02.13]On a road so far away [02:05.09] [02:06.31]I heard the sound of life [02:08.70] [02:09.55]Though the people left for home [02:12.41] [02:42.68]Three birds flew off a building [02:45.39] [02:46.01]Standing proud against the sky [02:48.87] [02:50.98]Many more flew with them [02:53.21]Spiralled upward like laughter [02:56.74] [02:57.73]Faster harder [03:00.12] [03:01.08]They rose up in a column [03:03.64] [03:04.81]Hundreds upon hundreds [03:07.45] [03:08.42]Twice that many wings beat [03:11.11] [03:11.98]Four miles across [03:14.94]Stretched a million miles high [03:18.00] [03:18.99]The living pulsing column [03:21.88] [03:22.41]In the lady of the sky [03:25.51] [03:26.51]Feathers thrashed together [03:29.07] [03:30.26]Locked in that huge one [03:32.39] [03:33.75]I knew no one could see it [03:36.44] [03:37.27]And now that it was gone [03:40.84]I rubbed my eyes and tried to find [03:44.46]A reason for the flight [03:47.53] [03:48.28]Exodus escape or was it just for me to see [03:54.63]Like the mating of the earth and air [03:58.86]Like water is to flowers [04:01.74] [04:02.59]The envy of her friends [04:05.43]How far are we from dying [04:07.09]Is it nearly at an end [04:09.08] [04:09.92]How far are we from dying [04:13.22]Is it nearly at an end [04:16.97]How far are we from dying [04:20.58]Is it nearly at an end [04:23.62] [04:24.26]How far are we from dying [04:27.48] [04:28.00]Is it nearly at an end [04:31.09] [04:31.62]How far are we from dying [04:35.19]Is it nearly at an end [04:38.43] [04:38.95]How far are we from dying [04:42.39]Is it nearly at an end [04:45.75]How far are we from dying [04:49.50]Is it nearly at an end [04:52.98] [04:53.56]How far are we from dying