Viking Heart

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Can you see who it might be? Tell old man to ring the bell Climb the steps up from the sea Strange and dark and very tall [Verse 2] Can you see who it might be? Visitors—they are so few Head so proud but curls so free Yeah, looks like someone I once knew [Chorus] David of the Viking heart Glitter of the sea It couldn't It wouldn't It daren't be [Verse 3] The men they see him up the coast At the drinking house of Morley Arms He hails the sea with every toast And he hails the ladies with his charms [Verse 4] All the ladies he does love Each day I saw his bosom swell He's not like me—I love but one And I love that one and I know him well [Chorus] Ah—but all the love In the world was not enough So I couldn't I wouldn't I daren't say no [Verse 5] Oh David—how you made me feel Every crack in every wall Climb above the traps of man And shout above the siren's call [Verse 6] But now the siren's all you hear Shamed and dizzy you can't stop All the things we used to fear Oh, are you spinning, little top? [Chorus] The strangeness of it all Is you know yourself so well But you couldn't You wouldn't You daren't say no [Verse 8] Signs of you—they disappeared Poems and candles—I don't need Flowers that you brought to me Fell into a book I never read [Verse 8] I cut my hair off like a man Too much trouble and what's more It was tarnished by your hand Gone my hair—into a drawer [Chorus] I said—should you leave? And you—you just agreed So we couldn't We wouldn't We daren't say no [Verse 9] Now I have been a woman true Taking all that life does send I thought I could love just you But the heart does sway and the body does bend [Verse 10] Tales of you sometimes they come I smile and nod quite naturally My thoughts so rarely to you run I watch the glitter of the sea [Verse 11] Can you see who it might be? Tell old man to ring the bell Climb the steps up from the sea I cannot see—I know him well [Chorus] David of the Viking heart Glitter of the sea It couldn't It wouldn't It daren't be