English Murder

Standing in the ruins
Let's raise a glass
Not to the future
Just to the past
The flower blooms
The flower dies
The child has laughed
Now the child mus...

Run laughing towards the serpent's jaws, where England meets the sea
Breathe in the old dreams of the dead that travel on the winds
A taste of salt, o...

Here we stand, on some lost and lonely shore
All that's left to us, empty thrones and broken swords
Shall we watch the sun throw itself into the sea?
...

And the sun goes over the woods
There was a sister and her brother
Who loved one another
Sister, we'll gang tae the broom
O sister I would lay thee do...

The days fall like rain, on we fools and thieves
I stand at the cliff's edge, mocked by the sea
The memories of lost loves, or that never will be
With...

And in the days, oh, to come
The sound of iron and the sound of drums
And in the days, oh, to come
The earth shall seethe and the clouds will bleed
An...

Rulers rule, and foolers fool
How easily the flock is steered
By hands so fine, cruel and kind
Hands that point us down the years
Down the years
Down ...

I wait here by  the coast, in the company of ghosts
I  sit and watch the  world go by, sometimes I just sit and cry
Just another  English murder, a po...

We cheat on our friends with rhyme and reason
As surely as the leaves change with the seasons
For love or money, or sometimes both
In the garden, in t...