WUTHERING HEIGHTS - The Field lyrics

rate me

At the edge of a dream, it seems

I walk at the edge of a field

I touch the soil

Searching for something

To the ground I kneel, I feel

The presence of all who went before

And suddenly

The veil between us is no more

Like a fastforwarding film the surroundings change

The clouds passed swiftly overhead

But the field is constant, at ease

Like a warm, green bed

For aeons did my fathers draw

Their life up from this earth

Now next to this my years of rambling

Seem of little worth

And in a flash I want nothing

But to tend this piece of land

Provide for myself and my kin

By the strength of my hand

Give me well-tilled earth

Under an open sky

Ale and song as the evening goes by

Skin against skin, then an untroubled sleep

All in a simple man's dream

All else you can keep

Here nothing's changed

Save for the lessening of hope

For I've been a rambler, a pirate, a gambler

I don't know

How to make things grow

And it frightens me we keep our fortunes

Locked in towers of glass

And soon we must bury our future

When we lose our past

Give me well-tilled earth

Under an open sky

Ale and song as the evening goes by

Skin against skin, then an untroubled sleep

All in a simple man's dream

All else you can keep

Not lightly balanced are the scales

When fortune's weighed against ambition

Happier it seems is he

Who does not struggle for a mission

No one recalls how the picture should look

All cling to his own little piece of the puzzle

Always on the hunt for new distractions

Gone is the joy of working the muscle

It's like peeling an onion

Trying to remove all that's foul and false

I know there is truth in this ground

Hear the sound

As down the ages it calls

Give me well-tilled earth

Under an open sky

Ale and song as the evening goes by

Skin against skin, then an untroubled sleep

All in a simple man's dream

Give me well-tilled earth

Under an open sky

Ale and song as the evening goes by

Skin against skin, then an untroubled sleep

All in a simple man's dream

And the rest you can keep<br />

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Thanks to razvan