Plump of Grouse-Predator/Prey

[ti:Plump of Grouse] [ar:Predator/Prey] [al:Prey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Plump of Grouse - Predator/Prey [00:21.83]I worked through the summer in my sunburnt fields [00:25.28]Trying to put a piece trying to put a piece together [00:28.97]Then you came into my life [00:32.20]In the middle of July in the form of bad weather [00:36.56]Now I'm working even harder to try to fill my larder [00:41.04]Although I'm so sure I'll starve [00:43.68]Fall's dark skies over the fields a third the size [00:48.42]And my stores aren't looking much better [00:51.38] [01:04.55]When the forest shuts down when the first frost falls [01:08.24]It closes for all closes for the season [01:12.25]And I am not alone each beast is skin and bones [01:15.24]And together we're sown we're all poor eating [01:18.98] [01:19.56]Although we hope our bodies will cope [01:22.58]We know they won't and we're so sure we will starve [01:26.47]Still I check my traps they're as empty as my sack [01:29.49]And when I head back I dine only on the reason [01:34.07] [01:48.03]And now I'm waiting to die [01:52.23] [01:55.04]I'm thinner each day I rise [01:59.34] [02:29.31]When I think back to winters ago [02:32.12]When my stores were low I still found sleep easy [02:36.46]Then you came into my life [02:39.39]As the grouse took wing and the meat came freely [02:43.69]I hate to think about it these days [02:46.60]Were all those kills in vain if then this year I just starve [02:50.84]Where are they are they wasting away [02:53.54]Or keeping hunger at bay I think about it constantly [02:58.39] [03:12.07]I woke to the sun under the folds [03:15.31]Of snow covered cold ice forming thick on my bed [03:19.35]Tucked under skins of the animal kins [03:22.44]I once took in on which my body once fed [03:26.56]Ensnared in fate we struggle with hope [03:29.24] [03:29.81]Succumb or we cope although mostly we just starve [03:33.61]Shuttered in dens as the warm life ends [03:36.67]Under hides of friends that we made hunting last winter [03:41.33] [03:47.87]And now I'm waiting to die [03:53.05] [03:54.96]I'm thinner each day I rise