Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
Worse still, he doesn’t know how to follow the piper anymore because it’s a path Tom has lost faith in. And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father’s eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes.
I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.