Torrential Time
TORRENTIAL TIME (mp3 music) Music Page: Torrential Time, Song by Paul Hall about oppressive cities, song about cold rain, song about torrential time, song about rain washing the mountain's hills, song about silt dug up by sweaty men as clay for bricks, song about cities growing brick on brick, song about dark umber streets housing farmers robbed of farms, song about ex farmers robbed of farms laboring by landlord grip, song about cities where learning is the tool of greed, song about cities where dust once part of the mountains is now the instrument of the grief of wasted humanity whose contribution to true civilization is forever lost.
Written by Paul Hall in Paris in 1980.
(c) (p) by Paul Hall, 1987
The cold rain fell
in torrential time,
and washed the mountain's hills.
and in the valleys
far below
the silt got stored in rills.
It came to be
in the heat of day,
men working
in their sweaty way,
to bake the bricks
for the buildings tall,
without delay
dug up the clay.
The cities grew
with brick on brick,
in dark umber streets
and all too quick.
To house the farmers
whose land got robbed,
forcing his labor
in a landlord's grip.
Where learning becomes
the tool of greed
and the murderous war
how the students succeed
to rob the land
of simple lives.
Rob it of the farmer,
his children,
his hopes,
his wives.
Just cram them
into cities
built of miry clay,
where war
and oppression
have full sway.
Where the highland dust,
beyond the years,
once washed by rain,
is rinsed by tears.
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Copyright and Phonorecord (c) (p) 1987 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.