Letra de The Open Ground

[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
A timeless yellow mist
Drags reluctantly away
Revealing acre upon acre of wasted earth
The residue of a world gone wrong
[Chorus 1]
Hear the virgin cry
See the summer sky
Claw at the winter earth
[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
Slowly, but with infinite tenderness
Gaping pores yawn in the plain's pockmarked face
[Chorus 2]
Feel the coward's pain
Taste the sweetened rain
[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
Spattering drops of scalding rain
Whip the tortured land
Drawing the very stuff of the world
Through the stinking orifices of its crust
In a pus-ridden swell
[Chorus 1]
Hear the virgin cry
See the summer sky
Claw at the winter earth
[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
Spurts of foetid gas escape
Tainting the already discoloured odour
[Chorus 2]
Feel the coward's pain
Taste the sweetened rain
[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
A steaming breeze stirs
Skimming the calx from the mire
As with great
This it carries
Aloft
Blends it with the poisonous clouds
And dashes it to Earth as more scalding rain
The rain generates rivers, the rivers fill the seas
Until these pregnant waters over-rush the tired land
Destroying all vestige of its very existence
Left to the merciless, sweating heat of the black sun
The seas evaporate
Leaving the earth a flaking ball of the parchment of death
So the spores of decay are sown
The tablets powdered
The drawn lines, broken
[Chorus 1]
Hear the virgin cry
See the summer sky
Crawl at the winter birth
[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
As the festering orb falls away
The seeds alight
Filling the air with a sweet mushroid smell
[Chorus 2]
Feel the coward's pain
Taste the sweetened rain
[Spoken: Steve Townsend]
A Smell
Crying of things dead
Dying
And yet to be born
Eons pass
All that is left swirling in the void
Is a timeless yellow mist
Drifting
Onward...