Coordinates: 55°02′28″N 1°57′14″W / 55.041°N 1.954°W / 55.041; -1.954
Matfen is a village and a civil parish in Northumberland, England, near the towns of Hexham and Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an example of a nineteenth-century planned estate village. It was the birthplace of the nineteenth-century Premier of British Columbia, William Smithe.
Matfen Hall is operated as a hotel and country club. The Grade II* listed building was built c.1828 by Sir Edward Blackett to replace an earlier 17th Century house.
The Devil's Causeway passes the village less than 2 miles (3 km) to the west. The causeway is a Roman road which starts at Port Gate on Hadrian's Wall, north of Corbridge, and extends 55 miles (89 km) northwards across Northumberland to the mouth of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Lend me your children to borrow
I just need to send them away
Long eyes and tears of sorrow
I promise I'll keep them safe
So sorry it didn't work out
You believed the liar in me
My God, my love, my life
My world, my loss, my rage
Agnostic for the greater good
When the good things seem to be few and far between
Conscious loss of conscience
Packed the body on ice just to keep it numb
No feeling
Blame some things on the past
Threw away everything that I had
Unraveling for the last time
Stepping out of my skin cast in armor
The hate in me, feeling so empty
The guilt I swallow
Carve the line, skin the face
Stare through me
We'll leave you hollow, hollow
Assembly of the militant
What are you in our game?
Eradicate the power's law
Hope's a thing of the past
[Incomprehensible]
The hammer falls
The hate in me, feeling so empty
The guilt I swallow
Carve the line, skin the face
Stare through me
We'll leave you hollow
Wounded, having a loss of feeling
So dead my heart, my life has been ruined
Lost in an instant, saw red in my eyes
The hate in me, so consuming
The lives we swallow
To the front line, mirror's engaged
Scope's on me and leaves me hollow
Harvest children, harvest children
Harvest children, harvest children
Harvest children
My God, my love, my life