1917-Lesley Rae Dowling/Tully McCully

[ti:1917] [ar:Lesley Rae Dowling] [al:Split] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]1917 - Lesley Rae Dowling/Tully McCully [00:06.93]It's hard [00:08.41] [00:08.92]To leave all our possessions [00:13.40]I find it hard [00:14.99] [00:15.92]Hard to leave behind the jewels [00:19.69] [00:21.10]But they keep hammering upon the back door [00:26.59] [00:27.96]And our new kings shall play at being fools [00:32.39] [00:35.92]To find the words to tell it to our children [00:41.99] [00:43.07]Quite unaware of what's about to be [00:48.98]Between the sable and the bear skin [00:54.02] [00:55.76]Both worlds apart [00:57.06] [00:57.62]The freedom and the turnkey [00:59.36] [01:03.76]And they say time will prove to be the master [01:09.67] [01:10.69]And they say time will teach the weak to rise [01:16.18] [01:17.60]You could perhaps say that we were unaware [01:21.89] [01:23.29]If the truth be known it was right before our eyes [01:29.75] [01:30.80]1917 [01:32.83]Was no surprise [01:35.85] [01:38.57]The hollow echo of the jailer [01:44.61] [01:45.16]The time has come we shall at last be free [01:50.04] [01:51.57]My mind is back inside the splendour [01:57.13] [01:58.27]They can take my blood but the fury stays with [02:02.51]Me [02:03.65] [02:06.40]The snow lies thick inside the courtyard [02:12.51] [02:13.24]A breeze of ignorance blows clean and new [02:17.95] [02:19.43]Between the present and the future [02:24.13] [02:27.14]Between the sabbath and the empty pews [02:31.26] [02:34.16]And they say time will prove to be the master [02:40.24] [02:41.03]And they say time will teach the weak to rise [02:47.02] [02:48.09]You could perhaps say that we were unaware [02:52.39] [02:53.66]If the truth be known it was right before our eyes [02:59.65] [03:01.20]1917 [03:03.24]Was no surprise