Intro
Verse 1
Our Family’s Land Once Rolled
All The Way To The Horizon
We'd Pitched Our Pitch: Digging Ditches
In A Sun-Soaked Land
That Yielded All We Needed
While we worshipped the animals :
Searching Eyes Of Foxes
Routing Noses Of Badgers
Scurrying Habits Of Rabbits
But Birds Held A Special Place.
Seed Left On Walls We Watched Them Dive
Hop, Peck At Crumbling Brick
Slight Frames Shimmered Against Red
We'd Gather Twigs, Leaves
Offerings Left At The Base Of The Oak
Old, Knotted, Twisted
Through Years, Minds
Chorus 1
Decades Again After That,
I Stood In The Same Spot: The Oak Bowed,
The Field Brown, The House Empty
But The Birdbox Still There
Echoing A New Age’s Call
My Mind Echoing Inside Its Walls
Verse 2
Our Father Made A Different Gift
Timber Shorn From A Storm-Wrecked Shed
A Gable Roof, Port Holed Home
Lined Our Wool Picked From The Fence
With Autumn Waiting, We Watched His Hands
Smooth Sides, Round Edges
Screw Together, Firm And Steady
Lesson Learnt From Shed Debacle
I Loved The Brush Strokes. He Stained With Thick Water
Blessings That Brought Out The Grain, Rings Of Years
Straightened On Man-Made Planes
Fumes Stinging The Nose And Weeping Eye
The Morning Ended With Him Stood Teetering
On A Ladder He Stretched, Grunts Timed
With Hammer Blows
Oak Solid Against A Thundering Hand
Chorus 2
Decades Again After That,
I Stood In The Same Spot: The Oak Bowed,
The Field Brown, The House Empty
But The Birdbox Still There
Echoing A New Age’s Call
My Mind Echoing Inside Its Walls
Bridge
Perfect For A New Home, As If She Knew
Decades Later, We'd Be Here, Then, Filling That Gap
For Life To Fly In And Nest In And Lay In
And To Warm And To Hatch
And To Feed And To Leave
Chorus 3
Decades Again After That,
I Stood In The Same Spot: The Oak Bowed,
The Field Brown, The House Empty
But The Birdbox Still There
Echoing A New Age’s Call
My Mind Echoing Inside Its Walls
Chorus 4
Decades Again After That,
I Stood In The Same Spot: The Oak Bowed,
The Field Brown, The House Empty
But The Birdbox Still There
Echoing A New Age’s Call
My Mind Echoing Inside Its Walls
My Mind Echoing Inside Its Walls
