"Keeper Of Abbeys" lyrics - BIG BIG TRAIN

[Intro:]
Keeper of abbeys
His name was carved in the grey stone
It was the angel of the north

Reaching for a last
Remnant of the light
It catches the high stones

He came down from the moors
He'd seen much better days
He set himself to the rain

[Chorus:]
Keeper of abbeys (Keeper of abbeys)
His name was carved in the grey stone
It was the angel of the north

Keeper of abbeys (Keeper of abbeys)
His name was carved in the grey stone
It was the angel of the north

Reaching for the light
Rising like the cooling towers of the edgelands
Weathered like the stone
Long ago he set himself to the rain

[Chorus:]
Keeper of abbeys (Keeper of abbeys)
His name was carved in the grey stone
It was the angel of the north

Keeper of abbeys (Keeper of abbeys)
His name was carved in the grey stone
It was the angel of the north

[Post-Chorus:]
Oh-oh
Oh, oh

[Bridge:]
In his eyes
The embers of love, ooh
Fading and failing
If you look close, if you look hard

You can see the traces
He has become the stones, weathered to fall
Oh, reaching for the last dying ray of light
In a valley in the north

Where a river runs its course
He had wanted to travel

[Instrumental Outro]