Simon Joyner - The Blue Hammer lyrics

I lived in a house with a blue steel hammer I lived all alone she left me that way Everything around me seemed to be shattered I nailed it all to the ground and then I wandered away I searched for work at my side was the hammer I pounded on doors through the winter and spring But no one had any jobs for a stranger Nothing broken for a man who could fix anything If a church had a pew that was falling apart I'd nail it back together for free But if a woman had a roof with a hole in the heart There would be something she could do for me I met a woman who stood before a hot hungry needle She climbed a rubber ladder and leapt into this lap Then I met a man who drank from the moat around a castle Then crawled all day and night just to collapse inside a shack A fire broke out and the trees began moaning The animals scrambled or huddled in fear I searched for a pain that might lead to a clearing For I knew that a high place would be better than here I longed for escape from the black burning woods Everything in the smoke was trying to get free But nothing I saw could be saved or made good In fact everything was so scorched on all sides of me I made it back home and I pa**ed through the door All that I'd left behind was exactly the same After pulling all the nails from the walls and the floor I knew it was time to put the blue hammer away I laid myself down and slipped into dreaming Where I was clutching my lover and reliving the past I awoke to the smoke and the fire in the ceiling When you retire your hammer the forest attacks