Sepia from Reverence by Ba'al
Tracklist
| 3. | Sepia | 9:52 |
Lyrics
Through dark unconscious streets we stumble
With distant lights to guide
Our whisky soaked desires for the future
His weight indented upon my shoulder
Soldiers returned home - veterans without uniform
Within thick darkness - hands outstretched to feel our way
And there we found the churchyard
This place when we were just boys
Cigarettes and cider upon the stones
It was just a place to go to dream
Beneath shadows cast by angels
“Let’s stay here until the sun rises”
He said “I can’t see for the dark”
There was a faint glisten in his eyes
And upon those stones we sat
To see the sun birth from the opening hills of the horizon
What is this sickly copper sun?
Bleeding into overcast skies
A drape of vermilion rot
Pollution soaked into the eyes
He lay down between the graves and said
“It feels so pleasant to lie here”
The smoke wound up from his cigarette
And disappeared into the sky
These memories as though a photograph
Victorian, post mortem
And I don’t know what is real any more
