The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove
by Dead Can Dance

I thought that you knew it all
Well you've seen it ten times before.
I thought that you had it down
With both your feet on the ground.
I love slow ... slow but deep.
Feigned affections wash over me.
Dream on my dear
And renounce temporal obligations.
Dream on my dear
It's a sleep from which you may not awaken.

You build me up then you knock me down.
You play the fool while I play the clown.
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum.
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in disillusionment.

I don't believe you anymore ... I don't believe you.

I thought that I knew it all
I'd seen all the signs before.
I thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won.

You build me up then you knock me down.
You play the fool while I play the clown.
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum.
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in a domestic graveyard.

I don't believe you anymore ... I don't believe you.

Never let it be said I was untrue
I never found a home inside of you.
Never let it be said I was untrue
I gave you all my time.
 
 

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY

                                   I sat within the valley green
                                   I sat me with my true love.
                                   My sad heart strove the two between
                                   The old love and the new love.
                                   The old for her the new
                                   That made me think on Ireland dearly.
                                   While soft the wind blew down the glade
                                   And shook the golden barley
 

                                   T'was hard the woeful words to frame
                                   To break the ties that bound us.
                                   But harder still to bear the shame
                                   Of foreign chains around us.
                                   And so I said the mountain glen
                                   I'll meet at morning early.
                                   And I'll join the bold united men
                                   While soft winds shook the barley
 

                                   T'was sad I kissed away her tears
                                   My fond arm round her flinging.
                                   When a foe, man's shot burst on our ears
                                   From out the wild woods ringing.
                                   A bullet pierced my true love's side
                                   In life's young spring so early.
                                   And on my breast in blood she died
                                   While soft winds shook the barley
 

                                   But blood for blood without remorse
                                   I've ta'en at oulart hollow.
                                   I've lain my true love's clay like corpse
                                   Where I full soon must follow.
                                   Around her grave I've wandered drear
                                   Noon, night, and morning early.
                                   with breaking heart when e'er I hear
                                   The wind that shook the barley.