Mmm, hm Mmm, hm Mmm, hm Mmm, hm As sure as the circle follows the rule As full as the spheres are ringing with sound We traveled three nights, three days Hand over glove through silt and gley We took only enough supplies For the route as the crow flies Deep down in the mud she lies Ooooh Stay a while and bend my ear Tell me what brought you here Oh, the winter was hard And it hammered along Like a banjolin I hardly noticed So when we shook off the rust It fell like golden sunlight through a dusty window When will I be delivered good news Here on the end of my tether I think of you Leave my brother take me instead Carry me safe through the land of the dead Let me not be led astray From here springs life and slow decay Weigh me up on judgment day Ooooh Lay me down in your garden green Tell me what you have seen Oh, the winter was hard And it hammered along Like a banjolin I hardly noticed So when we shook off the rust It fell like golden sunlight through a dusty window When will I be delivered good news Here on the end of my tether, I think of you Oh my architect, we have constructed it well And the tears and mirages echo off the walls of the citadel As sure as the circle follows the rule As full as the spheres are ringing with sound As the citadel tends in summer to you Mocking time to measure the circumference What you are missing will come back to you Have confidence regular has winged it rolling along of us Mmm, hm Mmm, hm Mmm, hm Mmm, hmm Mmm, hm Mmm, hm Mmm, hm Oh, the winter was hard And it hammered along Like a banjolin I hardly noticed So when we shook off the rust It fell like golden sunlight through a dusty window When will I be delivered good news Here on the end of my tether I think of you Oh my architect, we have constructed it well And the tears and mirages echo off the walls of the citadel As sure as the circle follows the rule As full as the spheres are ringing with sound As the citadel tends in summer to you Mocking time to measure the circumference What you are missing will come back to you Have confidence regular has winged it rolling along of us