Bella Hardy - Bradwell's Lost Daughter lyrics

Silence swims as a fish in the water Lighting the Lumb with her colours so bright But each Christmas Eve see what magic transforms her Bradwell's lost daughter takes wing in the night Found alone at a house up at Hill Head Poor long dead wretch buried under the stair They've lifted her body and dug down so deeply They've lain her to rest but no rest she finds there See, she rises like mist in the meadow Still, she comes like the shadow of night With each ghostly creaking the dead girl comes creeping The sorrowful spector avenging her plight Soon, this village, so sleepless and shaken Sent for a church man renowned for his sk** And strait way he's come with no airs and no graces And walked without word to that house on the hill Into that house crammed the neighbours around him Through doorways and windows they hung for the show In a circle of chalk he has knelt down so steady And prayed with such force water poured down his brow All of a sudden, the floor took to shaking Up, down and upwards, until this man cried out "Arise, arise, I charge and command thee" The whole world went still, and her ghost did appear "Sorry am I now I look down upon you So sad are your eyes that it makes my heart numb If you will not be gone, you can stay in this village But you must live as a fish in the mouth of the Lumb And now for you sinners who gather around me I'd have you reminded for causing this woe So she'll rise once each season, and to lumbly pool hasten She'll fly as a blackbird, but as white as the snow Silence swims as a fish in the water Lighting the Lumb with her colours so bright But each Christmas Eve, see what magic transforms her Bradwell's lost daughter takes wing in the night