Daybreak Songtext / Lyric

{a version of grantchester meadows}



Icy wind of night, be gone

This is not your domain

In the sky a bird was heard to cry

Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds

Belied a deathly silence that lay all around

Hear the lark and harken

To the barking of the dog-fox gone to ground

See the splashing of the king-fisher

Flashing to the water

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer

Making for the sea






In the lazy water meadow i lay me down

All around me, golden sunflakes settle on the ground

Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon

Bringing sounds of yesterday in to my city room

Hear the lark and harken

To the barking of the dog-fox gone to ground

See the splashing of the king-fisher

Flashing to the water

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer

Making for the sea



In the lazy water meadow

I lay me down.

All around me,

Golden sunflakes covering the ground,

Basking in the sunshine of a by gone afternoon,

Bringing sounds of yesterday into my city room.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees,

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea.