About this song
They took his eye when he was just a boy, leaving him for dead in the ashes of his home. Twenty years later, a scarecrow of a man returns to the city of Estark. He carries a satchel of old spells and a debt to collect.
Lyrics
[Verse 1] I was five when the hall filled with smoke, a hand in my hair, a knee on my back, and the thing they took, they took slow, so my father could hear me and watch. [Hook] Take the eye, leave the boy. Oor-tael burned, I did not. Twenty years back to Estark. Take the eye, leave the boy. [Verse 2] Twenty years of a borrowed name and dust, grey wool, a staff, a satchel of old spells. They saw a scarecrow cross the sand and put their coin on the house with the flames. [Hook] Take the eye, leave the boy. Oor-tael burned, I did not. Twenty years back to Estark. Take the eye, leave the boy. [Turn] When it ended, the socket went warm, and the eye came back, a white star scar. I could have gone anywhere at all. I wanted the vine rows of Gish. [Hook] Take the eye, leave the boy. Oor-tael burned, I did not. Twenty years back to Estark. Take the eye, leave the boy.
