Music and lyrics by J Stephen Roberts

 

Sisters should live alone in a house of clay

And only come out when the earth is alive

When they walk the ocean

I believe they’ll recall it

Those things called cities of long ago

 

What bomb must burst to reach this ending?

What kind of day will see us free of our pride?

I watch it fall I watch it crumble

Ivy grows where stock was once sold

Virgin wake me when it’s over

I can sleep until then under a log beyond the grove

 

Fall Regina

Crumble slowly

Drifting farther

From your harbor

 

I used to walk in Woonlans everyday

Since then the heat gets to me

Now I watch ruins

Where was a market

There’s just no hope for people like me

 

And when I watch it burn I’ll confront the bloodshed

I’ll suffer gladly to feel it be pure

I watch it fall into nothing

Shattered glass where stock was once sold

Sorrow wakes me when it’s over

I can sleep until then under a log beyond

 

Come my lover

My injured Bella

We’ve got to suffer smiling

It’s realizing