00:15The Stonecutters and Carpenters
00:18Raised these timber walls
00:20With frost in their beards
00:22And old names in the halls
00:24He tested clay between his fingers
00:27In the field, knew what would break
00:29Knew what would yield
00:31He failed and tried again beneath an iron sky
00:35Said nothing worth the keeping
00:37Comes easy in this life
00:39The fire was low
00:40The morning pale and thin
00:42And we did not know
00:44What was walking out with him
00:47The drum comes slow
00:48The ravens rise
00:50The old house breathes
00:52Through winter skies
00:55He stepped out from the fire one morning
00:59And we did not know it was the last time
01:03He stepped out from the fire one morning
01:06And we did not know
01:10I want the simple back, the bread, the smoke, the truth
01:13The quiet daily mercy of standing near to you
01:17The fiddle cries through thunder
01:19The river takes the light
01:21He stepped out from the fire one morning
01:25And we did not know it was the last time
01:36I hear my grandfather under frozen ground
01:40In wind and water, fire and stone
01:44Barefoot where the harvest used to rise
01:47Barefoot through the black creek under winter skies
01:52The old songs do not ask if we believe
01:55They enter through the blood and never leave
01:58Every room cut deep
02:00Every oath half sung
02:02Every name still burning on the tongue
02:07The pace comes low
02:09The violins climb
02:11The old grief moves
02:13The old grief moves
02:13But it keeps time
02:15He stepped out from the fire one morning
02:19And we did not know
02:22It was the last time
02:24He stepped out from the fire one morning
02:27And we did not know
02:30I want the simple back, the bread, the smoke, the truth
02:34I want the simple back, the bread, the smoke, the truth
02:35The quiet daily mercy of standing near to you
02:38The fiddle cries through thunder
02:40The river takes the light
02:42He stepped out from the fire one morning
02:46And we did not know
02:49It was the last time
02:57The tale came knocking like a stranger in the snow
03:01Hungry at the door with nowhere else to go
03:05So tell the tale before
03:07The telling's gone before
03:09The last hand leaves the stone
03:13The singer is a vessel
03:17The song is not his own
03:21It passed through the living
03:24Then returns into the bone
03:31He stepped out from the fire one morning
03:34And we did not know
03:37It was the last time
03:39He stepped out from the fire one morning
03:42And we did not know
03:46And we did not know
03:46I want the simple back, the bread, the smoke, the truth
03:49The quiet daily mercy of standing near to you
03:53The violins rise like raven
03:55The drums break open the night
03:57He stepped out from the fire one morning
04:01And we did not know
04:04It was the last time
04:08I leave you with the song
04:10I leave you with the song
04:12The song leaves you with the flame
04:15The flame goes on
04:17The flame goes on
04:22The flame goes on
04:23But we did not know
04:24But we did not know
04:36I leave you with the old
04:36The fire tylko
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