Lyre Of Lyonesse

Lyre please cast me across the ocean
Lyre return my love over the seas
Sickening crying withering dying
Isolde hear my requiem answer my plea.

Send me a signal heal me free me
Is love so short lived worth a sorrow so long?
If white sails light the shore the melody quickens
If black sails cloud the bay here endeth my song.

From Cornwall to Ireland I sailed for his bride
Fatal passion brought by the tide
Of destiny's potion we strangers drank deep
Waking as lovers from enchanted sleep.

Tristan farewell
Death will renew
(Neither) you without me nor me without you.

I worshipped my lady deluding my lord
In quenching our ardour I tainted the sword
Chivalry fell with a twist of her lips
In rapture we wandered our virtue eclipsed.

Tristan adieu
Au revoir
Ni moi sans vous ni vous sans moi.

Lyre please cast me across the ocean
Lyre return my love over the seas
Sickening crying withering dying
Isolde hear my requiem answer my plea.

Send me a signal heal me free me
Is love so short lived worth a sorrow so long?
If white sails light the shore the melody quickens
If black sails cloud the bay here endeth my song.

Bliss made us foolish we did not take heed
Tied to the stake to be burnt for our greed
We courted the gallows the leprosy ring
Suspicions awakened the wrath of the King.

Lady farewell
Death will renew
(Neither) you without me nor me without you.

To Morrois our forest we fled in the night
Enough of the Court and its hideous bite
But Mark never ceased interrupting our dance
Banished from Cornwall you left me for France.

Lady adieu
Au revoir
Ni moi sans vous ni vous sans moi.

Lyre please cast me across the ocean
Lyre return my love over the seas
Sickening crying withering dying
Isolde hear my requiem answer my plea.

Send me a signal heal me free me
Is love so short lived worth a sorrow so long?
If white sails light the shore the melody quickens
If black sails cloud the bay here endeth my song.

Feverous blur marked my time en Bretagne
Unknowingly married cold fair Blanches Mains
Pulse fades with the song poison seeps through the cracks
I take my last breath for “the sails are black”.

Lady farewell
Death will renew
(Neither) you without me nor me without you.

Swoon on his corpse life is ebbing away
Not for this world with my last thought I pray:
Together we'll lie for in death we are saved
Hazel and honey shall marry our graves.

Tristan adieu
Au revoir
Ni moi sans vous ni vous sans moi.

Lyre please cast me across the ocean
Lyre return my love over the seas
Sickening crying withering dying
Isolde hear my requiem answer my plea.

Send me a signal heal me free me
Is love so short lived worth a sorrow so long?
If white sails light the shore the melody quickens
If black sails cloud the bay here endeth my song.

Lyre please cast me across the ocean
Lyre return my love over the seas
Sickening crying withering dying
Isolde hear my requiem answer my plea.

Send me a signal heal me free me
Is love so short lived worth a sorrow so long?
If white sails light the shore the melody quickens
If black sails cloud the bay here endeth my song.

Lyre please cast me across the ocean
Lyre return my love over the seas
Sickening crying withering dying
I hear the requiem answer my plea.

Send him a signal heal him free him
Is love so short lived worth a sorrow so long?
If white sails light the shore the melody quickens
If black sails cloud the bay here endeth our song.