Hollow Hills

Where the hollow hills lead to blackened town

She prays for more time, with her eyes cast down

Skin polished silver by the moon

But like the women before her

She'll never leave too soon

She'll wait til the bells ring in the sun

She'll wait til the hollow hills have won

All of the words that he never found

He spoke them gently to the ground

To nothing filled with everything

All of the wishes he never shared

He blew them out into empty air

And nothing filled with everything

Lay down the bells will bring the sun

When the hills have won

Black diamonds fall from up above

Lay down, my love

Flycatchers are feeding on the wing

Cold morning is begging to be let back in

Faces in plain sight

He'd never seen more now than he did now with no light

With air pools frozen, brittle grass like baubles made of colored glass

And the way your hair blows like a flag upon the mast

Lay down the bells will bring the sun

When the hills have won

Black diamonds fall from up above

Lay down, my love

The day we were walking through the clover

And then we were looking at an indigo sky

All of the words that he never found

He spoke them gently to the ground

To nothing filled with everything

All of the wishes he never shared

He blew them out into empty air

And nothing filled with everything

The way the barley swayed when he came home

The way the sun traced dancers on his skin and then below

The way the fields whispered when he came home

The days father prayed for all the miners turned to stone