R. B. Morris - The Story of the World

from Boundless by Various Artists

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Where does this story end?
Where did it all begin?
All the pages that we turned
What have we really learned?
I saw it in a dream
A childhood memory
It fades away so soon
Like evening stars at noon
The story of the world

And those who’ve gone before
Who walked along this shore
Those children of the sun
Going back and back beyond
Who lived in their time
As I live now in mine
We rise and then we fall
Like sparks upon a chimney wall
The story of the world

Did they tell you, did you hear?
The world you know will disappear
But they can never, no not ever, tell you who you are

He was working when the sun came up
Coffee and bourbon in a cup
He wrote a letter to a friend
Then went back to work again
Wrestling an angel through the night
Drag that body into the light
No matter what the cost
To keep this morning watch
And tell the story of the world

Night of the Hunter, African Queen
Knoxville: Summer 1915
We are talking now of summer evenings…when I was a child

A father and a son
An evening walk back home
A favorite place they like to stop
And sit together on a rock
Listening to the night
Beneath the stars so bright
They’ll sit a while and then they’ll walk
No need to even talk
To tell the story of the world

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from Boundless, track released October 28, 2019
R. B. Morris

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