Patrick Wolf - Blackdown lyrics

And I walked west Sussex sunlight
Up by dead mans pool
Where ma, mudlark 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 too many
Of the great moments in my life
Alone like so many

But at this moment in my life
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 heart 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
Lone like so many

But at this moment of my life

Desire, despair and death i challenge thee
All as i walked up on blackdown