[00:33.69]When the rooks were laid in the piles
[00:36.69]By the sides of the road
[00:42.04]Crashing into the aerials
[00:44.97]Tangled in the laundry lines
[00:50.50]And gathered in a field
[00:52.83]They were burned in a feathering pyre
[00:55.97]With their cold black eyes
[01:05.92]When the swallows fell from the eaves
[01:09.94]And the gulls from the spires
[01:14.92]The starlings, in millions
[01:17.16]Would feed on the ground where they lie
[01:23.15]The ambulance men said
[01:25.56]There's nowhere to flee for your life
[01:33.36]So we stay inside
[01:38.44]And we'll sleep until the world of man is paralyzed
[02:14.21]Oh, the falconer awakes to the sound of the bells
[02:21.55]Overhead and southbound
[02:25.93]They are leaving his life
[02:30.90]And each empty cage just rings in his heart like a bell
[02:38.49]Underneath these cold stars
[02:42.90]In this trembling light, and he cries
[02:49.48]Amen, let their kingdom come tonight
[02:55.26]Let this dream be realized
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