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The Name of Trees

from embers by FS1E

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Heading south oh just the three of us
Melancholy mood but the band plays on
Through the garden of old England
In winters garb you know a New Years dawning
Ever south down to the sea
Where the sun don’t shine and their ain’t no cool breeze
Thought I’d see your friendly faces there
But you weren’t there
The pews were bare
Just mum and dad in the cold sea air


He used to know the name of trees.
Play the songs the way he pleased
That’s why we loved him unlike all those other mercenaries
Incandescent melodies he was part of the family
That’s why he loved us more than all the other bands in which he’d been


All the bands
Hatching all their plans
Bands oh bands in tribal little gangs
Trying to play their songs
With boxing gloves upon their hands
And the master stands alone
You in the shadows playing like a metronome
And scratch old scratch playing with a match got a fire on his head he’s got petrol in a can is he doing it for real is it all part of the act


He used to know the name of trees
He’d play the songs the way he pleased
That’s why we loved him more than all those other mercenaries
Incandescent melodies
Was part of the family
That’s why we loved him

Now the songs have been all sung
The new days been and now it’s gone
Into history
How much a mortal man’s life
Is over in the blinking of an eye
What poetry
Till the creature came upon your door
Took your love and came back for more
Showed no mercy
But the Guru said the spirit lives
And I saw your face and I knew it did
Such certainty


Used to know the name of trees
Played the songs the way he pleased
Incandescent melodies
That’s why we loved him more than all those other mercenaries (break)
That’s why we loved him

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from embers, released December 26, 2020

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