Shearwater - The Hunter's Star lyrics

The hunter's star Burns brighter than all of the suns of the firmament As through the sky he raged With his hook and blade And the world unmade As forests bow And blacken the air As the canopies burn away And the arc-light fades And no gull remains To repeat its call Only now would you long For the ancient boughs The moon overlapping the long white clouds And the home life of a love Who will never return again No child at all Would wake to the light Of a sun that is reddening Like a robin's breast And no lioness Boards a last, great hull On the waves That close That close On a world That will never return again No sound escapes From the night to come