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Winchester Diver

from The Underfall Yard by Big Big Train

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Breaking the stone, a thousand years, an underfall.
The water’s edge is closer than you think,
surface tension falling as the air is taken in.
Beneath the walls, all light has gone,
like the passage of a mine whose seam is unknown.
He worked each drift by hand alone,
sand and water and blood and stone.

He hadn’t much of a story to tell,
just how he stopped the walls from falling.
Making a stand, made solid ground.

Two worlds apart, the people say their Sunday prayers.
Music fills the vaulted space;
the organ covers up the hammer falls.
But the water’s edge is closer than you thing,
you can see it in his staring eyes, the dripping shell,
the lower parts of hell are just beneath you.

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from The Underfall Yard, released December 15, 2009
Nick D’Virgilio Drums
Jon Foyle Cello
Dave Gregory Guitar solo, Ebow guitar
David Longdon Vocals, mandolin, flute, keyboards
Andy Poole Bass, keyboards
Greg Spawton Guitars, keyboards, bass

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'The standard-bearers of new UK prog' MOJO

Big Big Train have revisited the sound world of early Genesis and Yes and have managed to create music with great emotional clout’ THE TIMES

'They make beautiful, pastoral quintessentially English music: their name is Big Big Train”
BOB HARRIS, BBC RADIO 2
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