All we knew Lyrics

We studied maps for the smallest roads

Train timetables to the farthest outposts

When life was like there's no tomorrow

They tore the houses down in our neighbourhood

Cleared it all with a few truckloads

One night out of the blue, I woke with this hollow truth

There's nothing left of all we knew

I saw a bareback rider

Down by the dark rolling river

I saw a sky so old

Waiting to unfold

In the town prostrated

By August defeated

Instrumental

In the logbook of your existence

Noughts and crosses of experience

Rest your mind and weary eyes

Days subside and then again rise

I saw a bareback rider

Down by the dark rolling river

I saw a sky so old

Waiting to explode

In the town prostrated

By August defeated

I saw

A bareback rider

Down by the dark rolling river

A sky so old

Waiting for the flood

I saw a bareback rider

Down by the old rolling river