Shearwater - The Hunter's Star lyrics

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The hunter's star

burns brighter than all of the suns in the firmament.

As through the sky he raged

with his hook and blade,

and the world, unmade.

As forests bow

and blacken the air as the canopies burn away.

And the arc-lights fades,

and no gull remains

to repeat its call.

Only now would you long for the ancient boughs,

the moon, overlapping the long white clouds.

And the home life of a love

who will never return again.

No child at all

would wake to the light of a sun that is reddening

like a robin's breast.

And no lioness

boards a last, great hull

on the waves.

The close, that close

on a world that will never return again.

And no sound escapes

from the night to come.