[Intro: acoustic guitar, hand drum, wind, hummed vocal] Mmm, mmm... [Verse 1] Up on Montpelier the frost came down The Liffey lay frozen all through the town Smoke on the hill where the gentlemen played Nothing but cinders where the devil stayed [Verse 2] She came through the heather with the crows at her back A grey woollen shawl and a road worn black Some said a widow, some said a queen Some said a thing that should never be seen [Pre-Chorus] And she knelt in the ashes She sifted the stone And there in the embers Was a light of her own [Chorus] Oh, amethyst, amethyst Violet fire in the frost What was taken is found again What was stolen is not lost [Verse 3] They took it from her in a candlelit room Cards on the table and wine in the gloom She paid them in kind, she paid them in flame Now the hill keeps silent, won't whisper her name [Chorus] Oh, amethyst, amethyst Violet fire in the frost What was taken is found again What was stolen is not lost [Instrumental Break: harmonica, chiming guitar, Hammond swell] [Verse 4] She hung it on her neck where it used to lie Turned to the west and the bruise of the sky A door in the mist where the old ones go But she stopped at the edge of the famished snow [Bridge: soft, distant female harmonies] She opened her hand A seed in her palm She pressed it down Into the frozen farm No gold for the lords No bread for the crown Only a harvest For the hungry town [Build: full drums enter, brass swells] Sow the seed, sow the seed Sow the seed, sow the seed [Outro: gang vocals, singalong, building] Sow the seed in the frozen ground There'll be bread when the spring comes round Sow the seed in the frozen ground There'll be bread when the spring comes round (Amethyst, amethyst) Sow the seed in the frozen ground (She is gone, she is gone) There'll be bread when the spring comes round (Through the door, through the door) Sow the seed in the frozen ground There'll be bread when the spring comes round [Fade Out: wind, crows, lone acoustic guitar]
