Yet in our ears are the silver vivid bugles of a new creation advancing on us from behind, we hear the rolling of the soft and happy drums of the doves.
No one from my heart to hear that kind of sound, because the rumbling sound of aircraft flying has been drowned out of my broken heart, and my tears landing sound.
Then I lay there, listening to the boiler roar, and feeling the cool air on my face as it came through the half-open kitchen door, and the warm water on my body.
I often sit in their room for a minute, listening to their breathing, the house ticking over in the stillness, the muted rumble and whoosh of a late train.
Soon enough, though, she was back at it, rumbling around the back roads of Redford Township, just west of Detroit, where her family owned a sprawling dairy and potato farm.
The two Irishmen watched them go, then climbed into the black Mercedes - the young one behind the wheel, the older man in the passenger seat. The finely tuned engine purred to life.
Chelsea have rumbled to three straight league victories at the start of the season, despite pundits pointing out their lack of width, and wondering just how effective they can continue to be.