
Date of issue: 15.05.2011
Record label: Mute
Song language: English
The Sorrowful Wife |
I married my wife on the day of the eclipse |
Our friends awarded her courage with gifts |
Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts |
I look to my sorrowful wife |
Who is quietly tending her flowers |
Who is quietly tending her … |
The water is high on the beckoning river |
I made her a promise I could not deliver |
And the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver |
Through me and my sorrowful wife |
Who is shifting the furniture around |
Who is shifting the furniture around |
Now we sit beneath the knotted Yew |
And the bluebells bob around our shoes |
The task of remembering the telltale clues |
Goes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife |
Who is counting the days on her fingers |
Who is counting the days on her … |
Come on and help me babe |
Come on now |
Help me babe |
I was blind |
The grass here grows long and high |
Twists right up to the sky |
White clouds roll on by Come on now and help me babe |
I was blind |
I was a fool babe |
I was blind |
Come on now |
A loose wind last night blew down |
Black trees bent to the ground |
Their blossoms made such a sound |
That I could not hear myself think babe |
Come on now |
And help me babe |
Help me now |
I was blind |
I was a fool |
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