Heaven calling
Your maiden name through the howling
Flooding plain
Where you buried
Your hooden horse
After betrayal
Before divorce
Handbells
Wait to chime
The day you both come back to life
It gets better
It gets worse
It’s a blessing
And it’s a curse
What is it?
Is it yours to say?
You’re going to know once it’s taken away
And the ever and after sings
Through the July Leucocoryne
“Power forgot
Ain’t power lost”
So nail your Brigid cross to the door
Sun, rain
Soil, air
Into the arms
Hey, yes, you beyond repair
It gets better
It gets worse
It’s a blessing
Oh it’s a curse
What is it?
Is it yours to say?
You’re going to know once it’s taken away
It gets better
It gets worse
Now step your wounded foot first
Trace to the sky
My painter’s brush
When the wild winds around you rush
You can’t break a vow
You don’t want to take
But how far can the willow bend before it breaks, boy
Hmm
Hmm
For better or worse?
Hmmm
It gets better
It gets worse
It’s a blessing
It’s a curse
What is it?
Is it yours to say?
You’ll know when it’s taken away
I hurl this hex out to Lomea
The guns of August Mutineer
Other lyrics by Patrick Wolf:
Better Or Worse
Heaven calling Your maiden name through the howling Flooding plain Where you buried Your hooden horse After betrayal Before divorce Handbells Wait to chime The day you …
Dies Irae
The night is yet to fall Not yet your funeral While we’re alive, alive, alive-oh What can I do to help you Hold back tomorrow? Show me your unfinished painting What …
Foreland
What’s that burning in the distance? Either the Redsand Fort or a ship Or my eyes are showing their age See that line form ‘cross the chalk stack insolent to …
Hymn Of The Haar
The path here over winter grew With wild madder and rest harrow I came to tread another in At the end of spring I walk my miseries here on a leash The strait of dover A …
Jupiter
No straw to gold ‘Round parts like these here A burnt out bus sticks up Sundial in the weir Losing a game We were not playing Gone to seed Twisting in the wind …