Album Name

Kristofferson

Artist

Kris Kristofferson

Genre

컨트리

Release Date

1970

Release Agency

Monument/Legacy

Darby`s Castle - Kris Kristofferson
See the ruin on the hill
where the smoke is hanging still
Like an echo of an age long forgotten
There's a story of a home
crushed beneath
those blackened stones
And the roof that fell
before the beams were rotten
Cecil Darby loved his wife
and he laboured 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 Darby's castle
tumbled to the ground
Though they shared a common bed
there was precious little said
In the moments that were
set aside for sleepin'
For his busy dreams were filled
with the rooms he'd 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 window of the room
Split the shadows
where two bodies lay entangled
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 Darby's castle
tumbled to the ground