Old layers of time have buried the ways that the others have grown And though sturdy and strong his eyes open wide with each new unknown And O it’s for the earth that he screams in the night He’s a servant of the seasons and the morning’s early light But the troubled one he says Rescue me he says rescue me On this mountain‘s the only place I can see clearly Rescue me, rescue me On this mountain’s the only place I can see clearly He says rescue me And see these guilty hands that envenom the soil and take the life from his fields But now these book-reddened eyes have discovered the truth and what it conceals And O it’s for the earth that he screams in the night He’s a servant of the seasons and the morning’s early light But the troubled one he says And so the plough it will turn and our hearts they will burn for sair works nae easy But O this circle stone and this buzzard dyke and this great unknown It goes on and on into the distance of time And O it’s for the earth that we scream in the night We’re servants of the seasons and the mornings early light But the troubled ones they say