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lyrics

O Scaffoldless hope, o climbing
Thoughts, without banisters, if
There is any road into the
Days beyond the calendars of
Woe, it’s but a thread, a circus
Rope, on which all gaze with disbel-
lief, through so much woe, so many
Ghosts, whose faces marked with hardened grief
(Whistle)
You streets and towns, behold your ground, and dig your wells together
You streets and towns, hold each others shoulders: govern yourselves together

The future is crashing like waves against the breakers
The suits are all stashing their gold in hidden places
If you guessed the future’s benign y’are mistaken my friends

O, Angel of Time, with frozen
eyes, looking back on catastro-
phies, all stacking up and piling
high. And yet I see you, yes I
see, you want to heal and make it
right, but your wings are spread out
wide, and some ill-wind carries ye
away, off to some future there behind
(Whistle)
You streets and towns, behold your ground, and dig your wells together
You streets and towns, hold each others shoulders: govern yourselves together

The future is crashing like waves against the breakers
The suits are all stashing their gold in hidden places
If you guessed the future’s benign y’are mistaken my friends

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from We Really Existed And We Really Did This, released May 3, 2019

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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