Lyrics Darby’s Castle - Live - Kris Kristofferson

See the ruin on the hill, where the smoke is hangin' still
Like an echo of an age-long forgotten
There's 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 300 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 he set aside for sleepin'
'Cause his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build
And he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'

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

Oh, it took 300 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

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