Blackdown - Patrick Wolf

I walk

I walk

Upon blackdown

And I walked west sussex sunlight

Up by dead mans pool

Where ma, mudlarck and lewes

Stared me down, you drunken fool

Old teenage debts engulfed my chest

As I contemplate death

Put a challenge to it’s glamour

And all it’s loss and glory

Wet afternoon breath

Was taken deep into my lungs

Thinking of the man I must become

My story has just begun

And I will be returning to myself soon

For I’ve been alone for so many

Of the great moments in my life

Alone like so many

But at this moment in my life

I ask you

Father, father, any way I can help ye?

I am only just growing better to know thee

Thank you for all the things you’ve given to our family

Given with your whole life to your wife and my sister and me Now I look out west of battle where our ancestors lie in grave,

Out to breed where the blacksmith put root to our family name

I get proud of my birthright,

Think of the things I must leave

When I leave behind the city

And the living

Finally

(The temple of the winds blows, until the boy wakes from his six year slumber…

alive, alone, we take the next step)

Desire

Desire

Deep down inside of me You are not the maker nor the master of me Help me to better support my family

To better better of a brother be…

Desire

Desire

Deep down inside of me You are not the wrecker nor the ruler of me Desire

Desire

Deep down in me

I’ve been alone for so many of these great moments in my life…

Alone like so many

But at this moment of my life

Desire, despair and death

I challenge thee…

All as I walked up on blackdown