Lyrics

[Verse 1] We dig for the gods that leave no bones For the ship that sailed in a sunken sea The vessel aloft in a sky of stones The famine road and the merchants' keep [Chorus] Come and search for we who search And looking for us, scour the land Turn the soil, weave the dream Thread the river, rake the sand And dig for those whose stories lie With buried paths and futures won And dig for us as we have done To lay the dеad out in the sun To lay us dead out in the sun [Verse 2] Coins for thе eyes and keys for the door Fortress, grave goods, chambered tombs Abandoned villages, rumours of war We dig for pattern, read the runes [Chorus] And so a clue to who we are And where we were, and why we will Inheritors of knowledge now And ancestors to those who still Might dig for those whose stories lie With buried paths and futures won And dig for us as we have done To lay the dead out in the sun To lay us dead out in the sun [Verse 3] We dig for the lonely, the loved, the worker The pilgrim in heaven, giant beserker We dig and see the past arise With its opening hand, its searching eyes [Chorus] Come and search for we who search And looking for us, scour the land Turn the soil, weave the dream Thread the river, rake the sand And dig for those whose stories lie With buried paths and futures won And dig for us as we have done To lay the dead out in the sun To lay us dead out in the sun [Break] A swan's wing, sheltering Sheltering, sheltering A child's grave, grieving Grieving, grieving [Chorus] And so a clue to who we are And where we were, and why we will Inheritors of knowledge now And ancestors to those who still Might dig for those whose stories lie With buried paths and futures won And dig for us as we have done To lay the dead out in the sun To lay us dead out in the sun [Outro] As always, dead at rest With their feet to the east, heads to the west Feet to the east, head to the west