See the ruin on the hill Where the smoke is hanging still Like an echo of an age long forgotten Theres a story of a home Crushed beneath those blackened stones And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten See, Saul Darby loved his wife And he labored all his life To provide her with material possessions And he built for her a home Of the finest wood and stone And the building soon became his sole obsession Oh, it took three hundred days For the timbers to be raised And the silhouette was seen for miles around And the gables reached as high As the eagles in the sky But it only took one night to bring it down When Darbys castle tumbled to the ground Though they shared a common bed There was precious little said In the moments that were set aside for sleeping For his busy dreams were filled With the rooms hed yet to build And he never heard young Helen Darby weeping Then one night he heard a sound As he laid his pencil down And he traced it to her door and turned the handle And the pale light of the moon Through the windows of the room Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled You might also likeOh, it took three hundred days For the timbers to be raised And the silhouette was seen for miles around And the gables reached as high As the eagles in the sky But it only took one night to bring it down When Darbys castle tumbled to the ground
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