I hear a sound, a sound above my head
Distant sound of thunder, moving out on the moor
Blackbirds flew in and to the cooling towers
I'll pack my bags
Thinking of one of those hours
With you, waiting for you
My god, it takes an ocean of trust
In the kingdom of rust
I long to feel some beauty in my heart
As I go searching, right to the start
The road back to Preston
Was jutted out in snow
As I went looking for that stolen heart
For you, waiting for you
My god, it takes an ocean of trust
Takes an effort it does
My god, it takes an ocean of trust
It's in the kingdom of rust
Oh in the kingdom of rust
I long to feel that wince in my heart
As I went looking
I couldn't stop
Now I'm waiting for you
oh yes it does
I know it takes an ocean of trust
In the kingdom of rust
Distant sound of thunder, moving out on the moor
Blackbirds flew in and to the cooling towers
I'll pack my bags
Thinking of one of those hours
With you, waiting for you
My god, it takes an ocean of trust
In the kingdom of rust
I long to feel some beauty in my heart
As I go searching, right to the start
The road back to Preston
Was jutted out in snow
As I went looking for that stolen heart
For you, waiting for you
My god, it takes an ocean of trust
Takes an effort it does
My god, it takes an ocean of trust
It's in the kingdom of rust
Oh in the kingdom of rust
I long to feel that wince in my heart
As I went looking
I couldn't stop
Now I'm waiting for you
oh yes it does
I know it takes an ocean of trust
In the kingdom of rust
Lyrics submitted by wednesday181, edited by huw1085121
"Kingdom of Rust" as written by Jez Williams Andy Williams
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seems, imo, to be a song about being deeply in love with someone who isn't available ("went looking for that stolen heart"), but as opposed to trying to get to them and controlling the situation themselves, they decide to let things happen in their own due time, to let go, wait to see if they will ever return the love they feel. it doesn't seem that this is something that comes very easily, willingly, as the person from this perspective is in love. "my god, it takes an ocean of trust" to believe that the other person will one day come around if they just learn to let go and not force the situation.. and so they wait.
the line "i long to feel that wince in my heart" is absolutely great. describes well the sensation of being in love, imo.
The term 'kingdom of rust' is probably referring to this world where everything ages(rust decays slowly) and then dies naturally.
I have to agree he is deeply in love with someone(most probably a girl) who isn't available because they have passed away:
'videos shows him scattering the ashes at the sea in the end'
So in order to remember his lover he is going back to where he met her first, at the beach:
'As I go searching
Right to the start'
He is religious and is tempted to committ suicide but is saying its is so hard to hold on to your faith:
'My god
It takes an ocean of trust
Takes an effort, it does'
He is exptecing he would feel his lover's presence when he goes to the sea to scatter the ashes and feel that 'wince' in his heart:
I long to feel
That wince in my heart
As I went looking
Now he is going to wait to die naturally where he will meet his lover in the hereafter:
'I couldn't stop
Now I'm
Waiting for you'
I long to feel
That wince in my heart
As I went looking
'I couldn't STARVE (not stop)
Now I'm
Waiting for you'
Doesn't really change the meaning much though...
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate–but there is no competition–
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
i think the song overall is about questioning his faith during a tragedy, whether it be loss of a loved one or a relationship or whatever.
my, god it takes an ocean of trust sounds like he's saying its impossible to put all his faith in someone,something, god, whoever while his world is crumbling around him (the kingdom of rust).
But at the end he's come to the realization that he just has to have faith(i know it takes an ocean of trust).
i say this because at the end of the video when he emptied the ashes and he was crying it seemed that he was happy.
so it all works out in the end, just have to have faith.
great song!
The road back to Preston was covered all in snow
So I went looking for that stolen [still unintelligible!]
In the video you see a motorway sign to Preston, and although he's not going "back" there it is mentioned so that makes me think that what the lyric is
The 'cooling towers' are those of a nuclear power plant. Preston happens to be powered by one.