Quite a fast one i'd say, "Party to the process" type of beat maybe???
Another real life character from War without Honour - just started reading it again!!!
Always forget you know it all!
This one's a real life character as well. Kind of sister, at the other end of things, to FH...
ALL THAT FALL
It's not so long ago since the frost lay on the verge
And you were lying in your marriage bed
But this dark edge of solitude is safer than the rage
Of a man who drives in winter with the storms in his head
You took his hand, you played his tune and danced for you believed
He had the kind of strength your sons would need
But you look back in anger now and see you were deceived
You were only dealing with the reaper and his blade
Oh all that fall, all that fall, all that fall can rise
You see it with your own eyes, you see it with your own eyes
You see it with your own eyes, my dear
Spring's harder to remember, it's been a long long time
Since you were free to drift, and free to stray
All across the city till those exiles knew your name
Quick-fingered men who taught you how to play
So you were the handsome cabin boy whose hair lay in a curl
Blowing through those reeds and getting laid
But you look back in pity now and see the lonesome girl
Only serving the needs of the reaper and his blade
All that fall etc
It's those summer days in Mayo you know you can't forget
The hardfaced farmer in the shade behind the stack
And each time he took care of you without shame or regret
A half-clothed child with your head in a sack
It's the furrow that he ploughed there that's driven through the years
A scar all these seasons took to fade
But you look back in sorrow now, through warm clear tears
And you see that no one reasons with the reaper and his blade
All that fall etc
Now leaves drift gently across this fallow field
Over the dry bed and the worn reed
And if a stranger comes this way then maybe you will yield
But only if he takes the line you lead
So you're sitting in the lamplight now singing 'Black Is The Colour'
As you lay your own daughter to bed
And you look back in hope now, not in anger
For you see you've grown clear of the reaper and his blade
All that fall, all that fall, all that fall can rise
You see it with your own eyes, you see it with your own eyes
You see it with your own eyes, my dear
