William D Drake - Distant Buzzing lyrics

A metal man is ploughing my field The leaves they are in laughter A giddy haze has come to me As I lead my donkey to water Sits a sentinel, sticky and bound Watching our disaster She says to me, "What have you found That you're happy to leave for the after?" Sentinel of seas, keeper of the trees Whisperer of the earth and divide Precious moments that pa**ed us by Will collide with a vengeance "What better dreams and subtler seams What gentleness, what fervour? What temple to love could you build with your greed That you're happy to leave for the after?" The donkey shivers and snorts impatient Her voice lost in the halter "I build houses of straw to burn in me And carve only ash for my altar Dreams among insects, ripples and gold Contagion to addle the sleeper When the time it comes to suffer my bones What haven't I left for the after?" Sentinel of seas, keeper of the trees Whisperer of the earth and divide Precious moments that pa**ed us by Will collide with a vengeance Precious moments will collide Will collide Will collide "What better dreams and subtler seams What gentleness, what fervour? What temple to love could you build with your greed That you're happy to leave for the after?"