The Mystery of Edwin Drood movie - The Name of Love & Moonfall lyrics
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Rosa:<br>
Love is but a word that wandered here from pastures green<br>
Where it was rarely said or seen and seldom sung.<br>
Innocent enough, it was intended to be used on rare occasions.<br>
Not abused by every tongue. <br>
Rarely has a word been ever taken so in vain.<br>
What little meaning might remain is quickly blurred.<br>
Never has there been so quite exhausted such a term - <br>
Your sighs and syllables confirmed how drained this word.<br>
<br>
Rosa:<br>
You call it love.<br>
I call it rude.<br>
I call it lust.<br>
I call it lewd.<br>
I call it cruel.<br>
I cannot bear<br>
To call it love.<br>
I think it foul.<br>
I think it vile.<br>
No more I'll take<br>
of cunning guile.<br>
You're worse than bad:<br>
You give to sin<br>
The name of love.<br>
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Jasper:<br>
I call it love.<br>
You call it rude.<br>
You think me just <br>
A bit too crude.<br>
And I the fool, <br>
Yet I still dare<br>
To call it love.<br>
I see you scowl,<br>
You see me smile.<br>
'Tis you I'll break!<br>
I've no denial<br>
My words are mad:<br>
I speak them in the name of love.<br>
<br>
Rosa:<br>
Rose Bud, the dainty little face whose every curl<br>
Confirms that she's a child, a girl, a neophyte:<br>
Rosa is the only soul in Cloisterham, it seems,<br>
Who senses just the sort of dreams you dream at night.<br>
Did you think your stare would stop my seeing?<br>
Every fibre of my being told me since I was betrothed<br>
That your most unnatural attention conjures words I dare not mention.<br>
You must know how much I loathed.<br>
<br>
Rosa: To know your wants.<br>
To see your clutch.<br>
To hear your<br>
To feel your touch <br>
A dreadful task<br>
To even speak<br>
The name of love.<br>
<br>
I will not fear <br>
My tragic plight!<br>
I have a choice -<br>
I'll take to flight!<br>
I'll not permit<br>
You to desecrate<br>
The name of love!<br>
<br>
And in the moonfall,<br>
Can you not see this victim, and lo,<br>
his slave<br>
Save me - <br>
And yet he seems so in pain!<br>
John, you make me like stone,<br>
Transfixed with wonder,<br>
Mixed with the thunder<br>
Of this love.<br>
Your name of love is chilling to me!<br>
<br>
Jasper:<br>
You know my wants <br>
to need not clutch.<br>
You have no choice.<br>
Is it so much<br>
For me to ask?<br>
I only seek<br>
The name of love.<br>
<br>
I love to hear<br>
The angry bite<br>
of your fair voice!<br>
One blazing night,<br>
You will submit<br>
And give your fate<br>
The name of love!<br>
<br>
And in the moonfall <br>
Can you not free this victim you so<br>
Enslave?<br>
Save me,<br>
And let these dreams remain<br>
Awake my own, <br>
Transfixed with one...<br>
Of this love.<br>
My all, my love,<br>
Your name is love and thrilling to me!<br>
<br>
Rosa & Jasper:<br>
Beneath these skies one night unknown,<br>
would (s)he dare?<br>
Between our eyes one sight alone we share:<br>
The sight of moonfall<br>
As it comes into view...<br>
<br>
Rosa:<br>
So that <br>
Soon I<br>
only see but <br>
You!<br>
<br>
Jasper:<br>
So I promise that you shall be <br>
Soon a golden idol whom I<br>
Own and love and lead into a <br>
Sea of light! 'Tis but the falling <br>
Moon!<br>
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