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The Reckoning

from The Reckoning by Steve Tilston

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I’m not overfond of the term, but this one drips ‘baby boomer guilt,’ and I do care about the legacy we leave future generations. They say that nuclear waste remains radioactive for over five thousand years. Five thousand years ago was the Bronze Age and they were just starting to build the pyramids in Egypt. In my view it’s a long old time to leave something so toxic hanging around, particularly when no one seems to have a clue where to stash it.

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Here’s to all the grand children,
Yet to be born great grand children.
All your sons and daughters,
And your own grand children too.

I offer you my hand.
Out across the age’s span.
A misbegotten plan
To leave the reckoning to you

I must apologise,
if it’s written in the troubled skies.
We’ve been peddling lies,
Somehow forgotten what is true.

Though it’s buried deep.
Poison never sleeps.
Through the ages seeps,
To leave a reckoning for you.

We hang on to misguided dreams,
sleepwalk to the brink.
Hey ho, rue the day.
We’re going down in drink.

I have planted seed.
In vain to raise an apple tree.
To entice the bees
to sip the blossom on the bough.

But the bees don’t toil.
Around the tree a serpent coils,
Spits venom in the soil,
And leaves the reckoning to you

I raise to you a toast.
Should trouble come to roost.
For we ate the golden goose,
And left the reckoning to you.

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from The Reckoning, released July 25, 2011
Steve Tilston – Guitar/Vocals; Hugh Bradley – Double Bass; Robin Tyndale-Biscoe – Oboe

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Steve Tilston is one of our most celebrated songsmiths, widely recognised within the world of folk and contemporary music; the words, arrangements and subtle, quite superb guitar playing could be no one else.

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