Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star

The Leaden Stour

Down by the leaden Stour the miller's tale is at an end. In a wood at the water's edge rooks are nesting overhead. Here, beneath the clouds, black waters rise again
Down by the leaden Stour fog is settling on the elds, pathways disappear, footfalls led astray
By the riverside
A penny for the ferry
New stones for the churchyard. A hundred years have passed, black waters rise again
Down by the leaden Stour hawks are circling overhead. A sundial by the yew trees, a guinea for a life
By the riverside
There's wood for the gallows and food for the crows
The carriers of souls
Black waters rise
One hundred years have passed, black waters rise again
By a curve of the river
At the end of the road
Black waters rise again



Credits
Writer(s): Gregory Spawton
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Other Album Tracks

  1. The Second Brightest Star
  2. Haymaking
  3. Skylon
  4. London Stone
  5. The Passing Widow
  6. The Leaden Stour
  7. Terra Australis Incognita
  8. Brooklands Sequence
  9. London Plane Sequence
  10. The Gentlemen's Reprise

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Altri album

  1. Brew and Burgh (Winter Version)
  2. A Flare On The Lens (Live)
  3. A Boy in Darkness (Live in London 2023)
  4. Last Eleven (Sweetwater Live Version)
  5. The Likes of Us
  6. Miramare (Single Edit)
  7. Oblivion
  8. Ingenious Devices
  9. Snowfalls (At the Boerderij)
  10. Snowfalls (At the Boerderij) - Single

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