We're All Leaving [Live] lyrics

There is thunder on the skyline

And it tears her breath away

Like the twilight steals the day

A father’s kind hand could not command her

To return to him once more

Like a soldier from the war

We’re all leaving

Even the ones who stay behind

We’re all leaving in our own time

Each night surrenders to a morning

And beneath the April sky

He can hear an endless cry

On smiling fields there's a battle raging

And for every bloom he knows

Another flower never grows

And we're all leaving

Even the ones who stay behind

We're all leaving in our own time

We're all leaving in our own time

And he has no Ark to bear him from this Flood

Just a broken vessel wrought in flesh and blood

And though the riptides pull him under

He will not cease to wonder

At the beauty, the beauty, the beauty, the beauty

He takes her mother to the church door

And while she prays for what will come

He walks those woods alone

And there he builds his own cathedrals

And on every whirring wing

He can hear the whole world sing

We’re all leaving

Even the ones who stay behind

We’re all leaving in our own time

We're all leaving in our own time

• Artist:Karine Polwart
• Album:Darwin Song Project