Wells Cathedral Blues

To the Apostles and Saints on the Cathedral Walls

All you Bishops and crowned kings

Come down from off the palisade where you watch

Come walk with me on the green today

Come open the twenty second catch

All day long, you keep the walls

Like shadows ever shifting

The sun comes up then fades away

Like our hearts we are ever lifting

Come down you rooks from your castle

Come step off your Cathedral Carousel

(We all may find so many things to keep busy

But take time out by the spring and the well)

Come down and bring your gift-parcel

Of Christian scroll to tell

I wish your watch were not so long

I wish it were safe for you to descend

I fear the world has moved along

Beyond where your merry-go-round ends

Come step off your stone plinths

Stand your weary feet down

Lay on the grass your batholiths

Lay down your heavy crown

The people on the green are not made of stone

Our hearts beat and break in time

There’s no sense spending eternity alone

To remain up there is a crime

The Saints and Apostles go stepping in time

The Cathedral Walls are weeping

Shine on their light in a shade of lime

While below on the green, their disciples are sleeping