Chris Millington

The rising August Sun

The walk has just begun,

Across the hallowed ground, to where the gallows stand

For something I've not done

And as the daylight disapeers, I hear a voice inside my ears

It's the voice of angels, and they're asking me

As I ask myself now;

Who will cut me down?

Will cut me down

And they ask me as I ask myself now

I see your face at last,

Reflecting echoes from the past

But you're so far away, and I couldn't hear a wod you say

And as the last rites slowly read

I hear a voice inside my head

And it's the voice of angels, and they're asking me

As I ask myself now

Chorus

The last face that I see

I will take to the grave with me

I hang my head down, and as they hang me high I look around

And as the night dissolves the day

And I slowly fade away

But you're still with me, though I have to leave you, please forgive me

chorus

(Liberame Domine de morte eterna)

 

Tell me the story again why the London belongs to the ocean

Tell me the story again, of the slaves who belong to the sea.

The promise of new life and more, were dashed on the rocks on the shore

And the only treasure in store was your freedom

chorus: To join the ghosts of the southwest coast

Doubloons, jewels and ivory

Where four score and more were washed up on the shore

In the rocky waters of Rapparee.

St. Lucia to Bristol we're bound, the wind was filling our sails

And at Ilfracombe we set aground to take refuge away from the gails

But these men they had God on there side

So we moored off the harbour, our cargo to hide

Where the slaves and prisoners died and found freedom.

chorus

In 17-90 and 6, we sailed through the Atlantic Ocean

The rogue captains Robertson's course set from hell and bound for damnation

And the London she floundered at last

Breaking bones of the men, like the spine of the mast

'Till a hundred condemned souls were cast to there freedom.

chorus

 

 

Stone me, how the nights are getting longer nowadays

Now the days just slip away.

Stone me, how the hours are getting longer, now the tides are getting stronger

Stone me.

(Chorus) I saw you with my own eyes, trying on some new diguise

Beside the mirror there to see yourself as someone else

These feelings come and go

Stone me.

I saw you laugh when you saw your own reflection in some photograph

Taken from the past.

The camera lies, 'cos that look upon your face I didn't recognise

That look inside your eyes.

(chorus)

On broken wings, you tried to hear the song the evening sings....

Oh but you didn't hear a thing.

You steal away, on some stolen word you heard I didn't say

But still you steal away.

Trying to seperate the morning from the night now the colours of the rainbow are there in black and white.

Now you're walking with your eyes closed and your futures never bright.

Stone me x2.