(**EDIT** 04/03/10 LYRICS ARE NOW INCLUDED IN THE DESCRIPTION)Track #10 from the extraordinary and oft underrated album "Brighter than a Thousand Suns," and one of my favorites. This beautiful and haunting song has gotten little recognition over the years. I felt it deserved a little play on You Tube. I hope you enjoy. Apologies if the recording is less than pristine. The compact disc is over twenty years old!

Lyrics:
Around the strangers moved, the shouts I felt within
New panoramas seen (I loved it as it was).
Forests of pylons built, the scaffolding is raised
And how the men pursue their work
They act convinced of freedom.

Crossed over by the bridge
The brook was running ill.
We recognized the place places we knew as children
We wept upon the sight, and progress tore our hearts
Fences divide the land, homes boxed like rabbit hutches.

Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village

Where soil will not provide, no king and land are one
Monopolize the holy ground, all that we hold as sacred
No harvest moon shall rise, no valley homestead seen
And now the cities never end, and how the cities stretch forever

And in the morning promise me great times will come again
And the homelands in our hearts will never fade away
Let the legends promise me the earth shall rise again
And homelands in the hearts of men shall never fade away.


Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village

I'll never never see my home
I'll never never see my home

You'll never never see your home
You'll never never see your home

Copyright 1986 E'G Records (Used without permission)
The slideshow is secondary and just a smattering of K.J. stuff that I've scanned over the years.

Paul Raven In Pace, Requiscat
Honour the Fire!