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No Room at the Inn

from Hell and High Water by Napier's Bones

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Semerwater : The Fall : Part 2

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I am here to bring you news from distant parts, tales of kings and wars, intrigue at court and darker arts
For little more than food and ale and, a nightly bed, I can entertain, inform, distract, why I've heard it said ....

**Landlord interrupts**

Just one night and I'll be gone, pay my way by singing songs
Confusing me with someone else,you...you have me wrong

So no-one wants to know and there's nowhere left to go and
There's nothing I can say, no room at the Inn

No room at the Inn, is there nowhere left for me?
Nowhere for me?

In the dark I make my own way, as I leave the town behind,
With delight, they all refuse me
Rejecting difference, not of their kind

And as the rain begins to fall it hides the tears on my face
I spy the faintest hope ahead,
I see the faintest light from a ramshackle place
A place called home
On the edge of town, a modest farm.
As if disowned, remote, closed-in but closed-out,
And now it's my only hope
Alone

***Tenant Farmers***
Come in inside lad, don't stand out in the rain
Room beside the fire lad, for us you'd do the same
It's like the Good Book says, we're all neighbours after all
We've nothing here to boast about but ..... we're glad you called

We'd love to hear your songs but can't afford to pay
Only bed and board if you still want to stay
There's a rabbit for the pot, and we won't go short of ale
So help yourself, take your fill.... let's hear your tale
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As the final farm receives me, the humblest abode
Like some parable of charity, those with least of all, offer most

Well I can't summon fire and brimstone but I curse their pride, I curse their town
For the tears I wept so bitterly, let calamity rain down

Begin the Fall!
Pride before a fall
Let calamity rain down. on them all
Let them sink beneath the gloom,
Asleep 'til Doom

They cast me out into the night
Their wealthy town, their weighty pride
Let calamity rain down, on them all
I curse them all!

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from Hell and High Water, released March 18, 2016

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Napier's Bones UK

Napier's Bones are a UK band steeped in classic prog and using it as a foundation for their own take on long-form progressive rock music.

The focus is firmly on dramatic storytelling with subjects capable of resonating with today's listeners. Music that references the past but is very much of the here and now.
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