the tug (ben version)

from TA03.1: DECLASSIFIED by the garages

original by amadis (@amadis) from the album AWAY GAMES, this version by Benjamin Oliver ( benjaminoliver.bandcamp.com , @VagueShrug)

weary wanderer
when your limbs can carry you no longer
know the tug that you feel is so much stronger
than the warnings ringing up and down your spine

can you hear it?
a desert song reverberating through your spirit
a voice that whispers in the wind "don't you fear it,
you know it in your bones that you are mine"

when all about you reel the shadows and the songs of desert shades

stare into the sun
wherever you may roam
feel it calling you home
despite the mounting danger
stare into the sun
let its fire fill you
and whatever doesn't kill you
only makes you stranger

distant laughter
swallowed by the sand the footsteps fall much faster
on your tongue the taste of ash and what comes after
reunited with what pulses beneath

so we are bound
the bitter, blinding desert skitters at the sound
in its unrelenting warmth we are found
and defiant we will show the gods our teeth

though we stride into the light the heavy feeling never fades

stare into the sun
wherever you may roam
feel it calling you home
despite the mounting danger
stare into the sun
let its fire fill you
and whatever doesn't kill you
only makes you stranger

endless days have i known
in the dark we still dream of the dawn
when the sun's burning low
with the embers of those who are gone

we put our uniforms on

stare into the sun
wherever you may roam
feel it calling you home
despite the mounting danger
stare into the sun
let its fire fill you
whatever doesn't kill you
only makes you stranger