On Stilts – lyrics

Verse 1

in the fading light

Riders stormed away

And their legacy

Lasts until this day

Riding with their banner

To a foreign shore

Taking all our hopes

“It’s worth fighting for”

Chorus

And now as I run away

And call out your name

Feeling the warmth of new light

Can I bear (all) this shame

And now as I run away

I fall just the same

Verse 2

As survivors gather

Left to count the score

And their leaders scatter

They don’t care any more

As the night time shatters

Any sense of right

And their children wonder

What reason there is to fight