Wednesdays Words. A song by Jonathan Byrd, who will appear live on - TopicsExpress

Wednesdays Words. A song by Jonathan Byrd, who will appear live on the Old Town Hall stage in just 3 days: I was an oak tree. I took a thousand years to grow, and Ive seen kingdoms come and go. Ive seen the losers turn to lords and back again. I held the rebels when they hung them from my limbs. When men of fortune cast their futures on the sea, thats when they came for me. And I was a slave ship, under the standard of the cross, a hallelujah holocaust. And half were dead before we reached the other shore, and the captain never saw the coming storm that swept around the cape and took us by surprise, and only eight survived. I was a camp fire, a pile of driftwood in the sand. The only comfort in this land. Eight hungry sailors roasted acorns that they found, and left me burning as they stumbled towards the sound of a church bell ringing out above the oceans wind, and I was born again. And I am an oak tree, out along the wild Cape Fear, and there is talk of freedom here. Where is the kingdom that was here before I came, where have the people gone who only left their names. A revolutions just a circle after all, and every kingdom falls. I am an oak tree, if it takes a thousand years to grow, Ill see kingdoms come and go, Ill see kingdoms come and go.