Sky, heavy as bell rope

Is ringing the changes

August has cried

In her swell-bellied labours

She climbs up the steeple

And waits for the chime

Halos of rain on the conifers shine

Halos of rain on the conifers shine

I'd like the world to stop

Just for one morning

And tell me the hour

Now this kingdom is fallen

The livery's decked

And the courtiers are bloody

And lillies grow now

From his mouth and his body

And I could pound nettles

Till my hands were blistered

But swans crowd the lake and no -

I'm not their sister

In pedalos once we were brave sailor men

One two we fell, and then we stood again...

In pedalos once we were brave sailor men

One two we fell, and then we stood again...

I want to be grand

To mourn as an actor

Playing a bit part

So I don't have to feel this

Extend my arm gracefully

Sipping in silence

Bone china, behind a veil

So not to see this

And I search without walls

And I search without finding

I search like a blind man

With fortune to guide me

In pedalos once

We were brave sailormen

One two we fell

And then we stood again...

Roots, pale in September

And tender as memory

Seed in the rooftops

And flower in the belfry

Silent in amber

That once winter time

We slept safe as houses

My brother and I

We slept safe as houses

My brother and I