
Date of issue: 18.11.2007
Record label: Hands on
Song language: English
The Preacher |
I am the preacher on the island |
Seven years lived alone |
I try to bring some comfort to a world of sea and stone |
There are no trees onthe island |
Nowhere to shelter or hide |
The men tear the rocks from the quarry or take their |
Chances on the tide |
I fell in love with the wife of a man who lays the fuse |
When I heard the thunder from the earth I knew I had to |
Choose |
Between falling and my cold, cold calling |
They used to walk beside the water, voices blown by the |
Wind |
And I would watch from the distance and I’d dream I was |
Him |
Then he found work on the mainland, oh how I prayed |
That something would tear them apart, force her to stay |
Oh I was falling and the cold, cold was calling |
Next day, they called me to the quarry, there was |
Something badly wrong |
A man lay crushed by falling rock, his life almost gone |
I knew his face in the darkness, I didn’t need to know |
The name |
All my prayers had been answered and I was the one to |
Blame |
I closed his eyes and looked up, she was running |
Through the rain |
She took him in her arms and begged the Lord to give |
Him life again |
And if I should live all the seven ages of man |
Seven tides will never wash all the blood from my hands |
I am the preacher on the island, I live on my own |
I used to pray but now I leave my maker well alone |
Just like the chapels on the island my heart’s dark and |
Overgrown |
I try to find some comfort in the world of sea and |
Stone |
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