Drums and Shotguns - Chamberlain

Rise, but keep quiet

Something stirs outside

It’s got me frightened

Drums and shotguns keep me awake

Tonight from all the fighting

(And this is nothing like I thought it might be)

This is my refuge, awake

At last darkness tuck away with me

Out into the night’s perfume

If over the hills you hear cries

They’ll never touch you

Sleep, the sun is creeping over a bleeding sky

I hear no fighting

Drums and shotguns slipped away

This time when in crept morning

Rise, but scream like fire

And in the night reside

Dance beneath the lightening

Drums and shotguns

Sing me to sleep tonight

The sweet sound of fighting

(And this is nothing like I thought it might be)

This is my refuge, awake and I keep hoping