Gone to the Fields

Lyrics:

• These were the stones
• that formed the foundation
• that held up the house where they lived.


• Here was the hearth
• that sheltered the fire
• that warmed them from through nights til the spring.


• Fractured and fallen,
• worn by the weather,
• returned to where it began.


• Gone to the fields.
• Gone to the fields.


• These were the stones
• that were piled one by one
• as they made the soil ready to sow.


• A pen for an animal,
• a piece from a tool,
• as their lives and their families did grow.


• Worn by the weather
• and washed by the rain,
• covered in time and concealed


• Gone to the fields.
• Gone to the fields.


• There were the markers
• that marked of the place
• where they laid the dead into the ground


• Here was a name.
• Here was a date.
• And a family gathered around.


• Marred by the weather
• and washed by the rain
• til theres nothing left there to read.


• Gone to the field.
• Gone to the field.
• Gone.