The Manimals - Summer lyrics

Ravens have flown from tower and parapet My mother below, shouting out epithets I would risk a branch's snap And I would leap the widest gap Just to see the world laid out like a map I didn't know a thing until I fell Far enough to see their seven hells [Chorus:] And if I didn't die I surely set the clock to ticking Summer child, who couldn't know What song they all were singing Stories they told, where the names were songs But different down south, they get the words all wrong I could look deeper still Wonder why blood was spilled All along was I meant to build? In my dreams, I saw it all Scrawled across a cannonball [Chorus] Is this falling, is this flight? Must it be from a great height? Will we sing that sweet reprise Will I see through different eyes Oh will I grow old and wise? Is it true that summer's over? I thought this would go much slower Can't you feel the weirwoods weeping? Where the past was always sleeping Sometimes you'll dream of home And you'll look to all of your idols But we all are grey We can do great good or great evil And all of those you've loved In the dust, they will be waiting To teach you where to go When the future's accelerating What will chase the cold away? Is it games that rich men play? Will we sing that sweet reprise Will I see it for the trees? Strength lies in the darkest roots And not every story is true Not every story is true