Down By The Frozen River

Album: Ensoulment (2024)
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  • Silhouetted by the dawn
    The schoolboys shuffled and yawned
    Muffled underfoot by blankets of snow
    Observed by a solitary crow

    Traipsing across those wintry fields
    Me and my friends pretending to be ill
    Then wheeling away from school
    The humor turned cruel

    Platform soles of ice and mud
    Blazers of fur caked in blood
    In thicket dens on makeshift beds
    Quarts of cider spinning heads

    Faking intimacies with unobtainable girls
    Inventing futures in an uncertain world
    Like seeds on frozen soil the wind had blown
    Who can reap what cannot be sown?

    Others studied hard, stayed behind after class
    Convinced a better life might lie within grasp
    The relentless broadcasts in received pronunciation
    Consolidating this indoctrination

    But over-educated to the point of stupidity
    Many lost their spirit as well as their liberty
    Faced with a future, to which my kind is consigned
    I escaped with an empty head and an open mind Writer/s: DC Collard, Matt Johnson
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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