May queen

You're begging on your knees without dirtying your hand You want someone to love, but not someone I can The wilderness calls me again A trusted friend in my exile I'm free in my exile, I'm free The...

Who knows not the tragic lay of Tristan and Isolt? The fair-haired Cornish harper whose hands held steel and string? And Ireland's greatest treasure, borne like Helen 'cross the water While the waves...

You must be getting pretty tired Of the man who once inspired you Going back on what he asked you to believe All the promises of power From his glittering ivory tower Where's the height that he once...

He was young and he rode along the river Raven-haired The fairest thing to grace those steady banks In ages come and lost for-ever And power laid upon him Like a thousand secrets she would never know...

Sink into your mother's arms The womb that gave you birth Let her take your secrets back and lay them in the earth Let her take you in her arms Let her take you home Let her take you home Let her take...

I suppose that I look different without the robes and crown I come this day before you with no riches, no renown For here I am no leader, I am just a humble man And I only ask you take me, you take me...

This one's a nobleman, this one's a squire One man will sing in the heavenly choir One will descend into hell's licking fire But to tell which is which would take better than I This one's a father,...

The Kingsword will stand... the Kingsword will stand The Kingsword will stand in its scabbard of granite The quicksilver forged in the pools of the sky A rumour explained by the one who began it A...

Did you think that you were better, somehow better than me? You come here with your arms thrown wide like that means anything to me You think 'cause you're a big man now you can take what isn't yours...

I went to meet her for a friend, a beloved friend Who knew he couldn't be there and knew someone should be We love each other, he and I--a brother's love, he'd say So who else would he send to bring...