Love is a killing thing

Erland and The Carnival

Compositor: David Nock / Gawain Erland Cooper / Simon Tong

Love is a killing thing
As I hear people say
As for to love and not to be loved
Has tore my heart away

There's some get sick in love
And not to mend again
Oh must I die from loving you
My lust was all in vain

There are more enlightened days
No time for all your savage ways
Oh won't you let me be
Love is a killing thing

I wish she was the weeping tree
That grows in your castle wall
And I would be the pouring rain
Upon your leaves I'd fall

In your warm and gentle arms
I rest and sport and play
Oh must I die from loving you
My lust was all in vain

There are more enlightened days
No time for all your savage ways
Oh won't you let me be
Love is a killing thing

Go dig my grave long wide and deep
Up above put a pure white dove
A marble stone at head and feet
Let the world know I died for love

There's some get sick in love
And not to mend again
Oh must I die from loving you
My lust was all in vain