Taken To Another Place

 

A song about the submerged city in Wales, Llanwddyn, as referenced in WG Sebald's Austerlitz.

On the shores of a lake
Down below from 1888
John of Jerusalem
Survived the town

The games they played
As ghosts beneath the water
Disturbed its wake
Like clouds through the moonlight

In the crystal water
He saw all the faces
And the heart of a city 
Taken to another place

At the corner saloon 
A quiet reflection
They sang the tunes
Of spiritual resurrection

Inside his head
He felt an undertow
At a hundred feet
He saw the souls below