Hesperus Lyrics - Wolf People

Looking for a lighthouse keeper 

Climb the hill and turn around 

Fallen stones and railway sleepers 

Are scattered like rice across the ground 

Severed hands of seven hunters 

Poised as if to draw a bow 

Arrow loosed to tear asunder 

Whistles to the earth 

I'll collect the feathers 

From the three black birds that scattered as the landed 

On Saint Stephen's Day 

The Hesperus has brought me here to try to find you 

Drawn in by the blinded eye 

Confounded by the fearful mess you left behind 

Oh who could pass you by? 

Has some raging serpent coiling 

Dragged you from your post? 

Bidden by a tempest to disturb your toiling work? 

I don't believe it's so 

Three good men were savaged 

By the same two things that carried me to find them 

On Saint Stephen's Day 

As I look upon 

The shattered crane 

The battered rail, the severed chain 

I know of no force so great 

Save that which bore me here