| I was raised in the years of the harvest
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| There were fields to the far horizon turning to the sun
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| I have killed more than I could eat
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| I live in a house filled with bones
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| But now the rain doesn’t fall
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| And the wells are running brackish and dry
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| We stare out across the shrivelling fields
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| At the pitiless blue of the pitiless sky
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| Bad harvest is come, we’re gathering dust
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| The scavenger birds are returning
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| La Muerte parades through the capital streets
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| Soon they’ll be hunting for witches for the burning
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| I can hear in the far-off distance
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| The sound of the men making ready to come
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| I can hear them saddling horses
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| And the sound of the hounds howling scenting the kill in the air
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| I can taste fear on my tongue
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| I can feel fear in my heart
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| We’ll be running and stumbling through the thick dark woods
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| Through the barren fields through the empty towns
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| Bad harvest is come and the wars they are lost
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| Whatever is left will be returning
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| La Muerte parades through the capital streets
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| Soon they’ll be hunting for witches for the burning
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| Beneath the towering clouds of rusting red
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| As the sun bleeds into the horizon
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| The churches of the new gods are closing their doors
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| And the hard old gods are vengeance-bent on their returning
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| The gardens of the ruined towers glow with burning crosses
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| While the kings are in their counting houses
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| Counting out their losses
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| Trust to the stories, my love — it’s what they are for
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| What’s happening now has happened before |