Twin City Lament

My distance from London increases and increases
With so many miles left to go
I left for the walls were collapsing around me
And I starved where I lay in the road

And I make for Lancaster town
Where I beg with gold for the scraps I behold
Through the windows
And I'm like a leaf on the breeze
Taken so far away from this place
That has burned behind me

My distance from London increases and increases
With so many miles left to go
I left for the walls were collapsing around me
And I starved where I lay in the road

For why London fell I begin
We were stretched so thin in our might
And our lives of splendour
And then it succumbed to disease
And the people fed off the flesh
Of the still-birthed children

My distance from London increases and increases
With so many miles left to go
I left for the walls were collapsing around me
And I starved where I lay in the road

It's been many months but the ruin
It has followed me here to the place
I had come for succour
And Lancaster crumbles away
I depart this eve in the hope
That my journey kills me

My distance from Lancaster grows, still it's growing
With so many miles left to go
I left for the walls were collapsing around me
And I starve where I lie in the road



Credits
Writer(s): Alexander Jackson
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