Sarah Balliet - The Day lyrics

The trees gave up their roots And the lepers left their caves All the rattlesnakes came down from the mountains And the kings all became slaves On the day that my lord came The fire split the beams The wall's coming down The day my lord came The tears filled up my eyes So the curtain has been drawn To lay to waste this land (to me) It's like the beauty of the breakin' of the dawn And as a black hand swept across the earth I know that the day came When the fish float on the water with their bellies up I know, I know, that the day came All the rattlesnakes came down from the mountains And the kings all became slaves The trees gave up their roots from the earth And the lepers left their caves On the day that my lord came The coyotes left their dens The horses left their stables And they bowed down to the ground Every creature that was able A blanket of moss will cover the earth And I'll know that the day came It's the changing of the guards Time to start anew The old gods have all failed And their succesors too My king, my king will wipe the slate clean Houses become tombs My king, my king will take what grows In every woman's womb Make it his own My king he is displeased To be forgotten and alone And the ones who came before Well the valley gets filled with their bones I am a storm brewing up in the east, the west From every direction at once