
Date of issue: 14.10.1993
Record label: BMG Rights Management (France)
Song language: English
The Mad Fiddler |
Not from the northern road |
Not from the southern way |
First his wild music flowed |
Into the village that day |
He suddenly was in the lane |
The people came out to hear |
He suddenly went, and in vain |
Their hopes wished him to appear |
His music strange did fret |
Each heart to wish’t was free |
It was not a melody, yet |
It was not no melody |
Somewhere far away |
Somewhere far outside |
Being forced to live, they |
Felt this tune replied |
Replied to that longing |
All have in their breasts |
The lost sense belonging |
To forgotten quests |
The happy wife now knew |
That she had married ill |
The glad fond lover grew |
Weary of loving still |
The maid and boy felt glad |
That they had dreaming only |
The lone hearts that were sad |
Felt somewhere less lonely |
In each soul woke the flower |
Whose touch leaves earthless dust |
The soul’s husband’s first hour |
The thing completing us |
The shadow that comes to bless |
From kissed depths unexpressed |
The luminous restlessness |
That is better than rest |
As he came, he went |
They felt him but half-be |
Then he was quietly blent |
With silence and memory |
Sleep left again their laughter |
They tranced hope ceased to last |
And but a small time after |
They knew not he had passed |
Yet when the sorrow of living |
Because life is not willed |
Comes back in dreams' hours, giving |
A sense of life being chilled |
Suddenly each remembers |
It glows life a coming moon |
On where their dream-life embers |
The mad fiddler’s tune |
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