Setting Fire To Sleepy Towns

Setting Fire To Sleepy Towns - The Sleeping Years

I fear the hearts of men

Are failing on these shores

We've been chasing tails

And trapping shadows

The whisper lanes and hoods

The conjuring of smoke

We're setting fire to sleepy towns now

I smelt blood and I heard the drumming rise

My quarter coiled up and baying

The crackling of wildfires

The breathing figures into life

Now we have enemies amongst us

Through it all I gave my hand

And through it all these days will end

The battles for your heart carry on

I draw the light and hush the sounds

You'll never need to know

Old songs and folk tales dying

I lift my hands and fake a mirror for your flames

We set out on christened ships bowing to the shores

Fathoms of lost souls below us

But I cup this fleet and blow its sails to the end

And this world comes apart in my hands

Through it all I gave my hand

And through it all these days will end

The battles for your heart carry on

I draw the light and hush the sounds

You'll never need to know