Up and On (Tempest cover) Lyrics

Did you ever see wild oats sown?
Blow tangled and get overgrown
Leave the whispering seed so far behind
The child he knew the clouds piled high
Those heartache castles in the sky
And through his eyes he left his lonely mind

We've been all so down that we
Watched ourselves turn around and walk away
With all the shame that dragged like lead
Never turning back my mind goes
Looking for the stony sign
The winding way that seeks the love I dread

Did you see the old men coughing
In their soup? The tired stoop
The wait for death and such a long time dying
The ones of stone who walk on bone
Who know no poem except relief
That keeps them down from always lying

Well you know the time, you're so confused
Down in your mind you're not trying
If you hear a sound that shakes the ground
It's only your soul sighing

Princes try and hold a throne
But they can never meet the loan
Even when they hold the stone of reason
Tribes they wander lost and die
Above the sea, below the sky
If there's no king in men, no need for treason

Well you know the time, you're so confused
Down in your mind you're not trying
If you hear a sound that shakes the ground
It's only your soul sighing

Well you know the time, you're so confused
Down in your mind you're not trying
If you hear a sound that shakes the ground
It's only your soul sighing