Skinner & T'witch

Hard white rock, cliff and stone
Rivers far below
Here we build our final home
Where the south winds blow

Still the lizard 'neath the sun
Magic are the days
Here us brothers breathe as one
In our simple ways

Lord, Lord, we live for you
Beneath the heaven's eye
Sword, our sword, we give to you
In castles we build in the sky

Rome will send her fighting men
To where the south winds blow
March along the gorge and then
The rivers far below

With banners, crosses, axes, drums
They storm our sacred hill
But as the final moment comes
Our hearts are strong and still

'Cos Lord, Lord, we live for you
Beneath the heaven's eye
Sword, our sword, we give to you
In castles we build in the sky

Lord, Lord, we'll die for you
Beneath the heaven's eye
Our sword, sword, raised high for you
In castles we build in the sky
In dreams that we carve in the sky
In castles that we build in the sky

Hard white rock, cliff and stone
Rivers far below
Here we build our final home
Where the south winds blow

When the moon dips her fingers into your bloodstream
Paints your name on a windy sky
When the moon dips her fingers with every moon beam
Warms your heart with a haunting cry

See she flies through the night as a ghostly rider
Silver bright as the branches sway
Time to rise, leave your pillow, and leave them snoring
Lift the latch, and slip away

Feel the magic, dance the moment, feel the magic curl
Feel the magic, dance the moment, go dancing with her world

Speak the trees, ‘here we sway with the old religion
Pagan dreamers beneath the hill’
Speak the trees, ‘thousand years of our love behind us
Here you find us dancing still’

Feel the night, live and breathe in the old tradition
Ancient song lines that never die
Feel the night, take your hand to the endless circle
Silver bright as the spirits rise

Feel the magic, dance the moment, feel the magic curl
Feel the magic, dance the moment, go dancing with her world

Leave me alone, I'm already dead
The moor's my home, the grass my bed

Leave me alone, I can take the rain
The moor's my home, it keeps me sane
So don't be waking me again!

I don't want the dole, or an easy night inside
Darkness is a hole where I hide

I've got no name, just a weary face
You'd be the same in my place

I got my coat, I got my shoes
Now there's nothing left for me to lose
When winter’s here the frost will lay with me
And one day take me to eternity
One day lead me to eternity

Some nights 'neath the skies stars are every where
But when I close my eyes there's no one there

Take away your dreams, give up your disguise
I can see my shadow in your eyes

Many moons ago the man was just a child
Then he grew to knew a world so wild

I got my coat, I got my shoes
Now there's nothing left for me to lose
When winter’s here the frost will lay with me
And one day take me to eternity
One day lead me to eternity

Leave me alone, I can take the rain
The moor’s my home, it keeps me sane

Leave me alone, I'm already dead
The moor’s my home, the grass my bed
Leave me alone inside my head

I am the King of the river
My crown milky white, spinning round
My throne peaty brown from the earth

Caught by the watery magic
Centuries of time spinning by
My dreams peaty brown from the earth

I feel life and death flowing through me
To ocean from spring I will ride
And I will return to the earth

‘Cos I am the King of the river
My crown milky white, spinning round
My throne peaty brown from the earth
From the earth

I am the King of the river
My crown milky white, spinning round
My dreams peaty brown from the earth
From the earth

How can I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely in every way

How can I behold thee 'neath the heaven's eye
When raven dark beauty shines more bright?

Thy eternal summer shall never fade or die
Nor shall death brag he shadows your light

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this and this gives thee life, this gives life to thee

When the swallow's sleeping and heaven's lamps are clear
Thee to my pillow will lay your day

How can I caress thee without a secret tear?
So deep is my burning in every way

When the lark is calling, the rising dawn is near
Then will thy starlight stir the day

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this and this gives thee life, this gives life to thee
So long as men can breathe this gives life to thee

How can I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely in every way

I was once a simple soldier fighting someone else's war
I was just a cheeky farmer's girl serving in the kitchens of the lord
I can still recall that day we met, my hair was wet from the lane
Standing in the doorway in your uniform, with a smile so warm from the rain

Don't you die on me
Don't you leave me
Don't you die on me

I was once a simple soldier and I never got to use my sword
I was taken by surprise on a bloody field, lost in someone else's war

See you across the centuries
Love you in a different time
Live for the day when both of us can say, ‘my love now you are mine’

I was an Egyptian tailor sewing pretty clothes in my room
I was once the Pharaoh's sailor moving quarry stones for the tomb
I can still recall that day on the Nile, for many a mile of blue skies
Deeply in love we played and kissed, and sadly missed the waters rise

The water's pulling me
The boat is turning
The water's pulling me

I was once the Pharaoh's sailor and I should have known the currents and the sands
I would give my life to save her, but she slipped away from my hands

See you across the centuries
Love you in a different time
Live for the day when both of us can say, ‘my love now you are mine’

I'm working as a textile printer in a noisy bright office in the town
Me, I'm just a pizza delivery man, but least I get to travel around
Here we are passing one day on the stair, we just turn and stare, and we say
‘Well, don't I know you…I feel so sure…from a river or a war far away?’

Was I once a simple soldier?
Was I once a girl in the rain?
Can we meet tonight to talk it over?
And the magic can flow once again

See you across the centuries
Love you in a different time
Live for today
Now both of us can say, ‘my love now you are mine’

Yes I was a simple soldier
Yes I was a girl in the rain
But our spirits are wiser and older now
So the magic can flow once again…once again…once again

Thank you for your happy note, glad to hear that you're still sane
Nice to know that you rise at dawn picking mushrooms in the rain
Good to know that your gypsy boy is with you when you wake
And your eyes hold reflections of the moon on the lake

Good to know you're travelling far, dancing with the distant clouds
Ancient symbols in the stars took you from the city crowds
And as you weave your Wicca spell to catch the morning dew
The sky will kiss the ocean and sing a prayer for you

And when the waters sweep the bridge
And the old oak tree comes tumbling down
Then bring your love to Osney Town

And, if winter brings you here, meet me where the water meadow ends
Take my hand and hold me near, we walk in time and you say we're friends

But as you talk the fields are burning and a thousand ravens rise
And the wind will strike the mountain at the twinkling of your eye

And when the waters sweep the bridge
And the old oak tree comes tumbling down
Then bring your love to Osney Town

I was baking Monday's bread when the soldiers took the town
By Tuesday night my boy lay dead and the tanks were all around
So we left, so we walk, never turn, never talk
We lost neighbours, we lost friends, in a war that never ends

God, where are you?
Take my hand
Here I'm walking in your land

By Thursday we were caught in snow with heavy hearts and loads
Mountains high, spirits low, on unknown muddy roads
Saw a soldier kill a man, held a dead girl in my hands
We lost neighbours, we lost friends, in a war that never ends

God, where are you?
Won't you take my hand
Here I'm walking in your land

Winter passed, summer came, in fear we travelled east
Through our country with no name, still no word of peace
Mountains high and sky so blue, never once we saw the view
We just ask, tell us true, ‘Oh Lord God, where are you?’

God, where are you?
Won't you take my hand
Here I'm walking in your land

I was baking Monday's bread when the soldiers took the town
By Tuesday night my boy lay dead and the tanks were all around
So we left, so we walk, never turn, never talk
We lost neighbours, we lost friends, in a war that never ends

God, where are you?
Take my hand
Here I'm walking in your land

By Thursday we were caught in snow with heavy hearts and loads
Mountains high, spirits low, on unknown muddy roads
Saw a soldier kill a man, held a dead girl in my hands
We lost neighbours, we lost friends, in a war that never ends

God, where are you?
Won't you take my hand
Here I'm walking in your land

Winter passed, summer came, in fear we travelled east
Through our country with no name, still no word of peace
Mountains high and sky so blue, never once we saw the view
We just ask, tell us true, ‘Oh Lord God, where are you?’

God, where are you?
Won't you take my hand
Here I'm walking in your land