THE WATERBOYS - THE CHARLATAN'S LAMENT lyrics

rate me

At long weary last

this game is over

The sins of the past

fled from my shoulder

The sleep that I need

is all that I ask

In thought and in deed

I have burnt the mask

Here I am

here I am

Enchantment is broken

I merged with the crowd

Oaths have been spoken

inside and out loud

Emerging from under

motions of God

In tears and in wonder

I ventured abroad

Here I am

here I am

Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me

could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

harder for me

Encountered a loathly hag

blood on the snow

She said "I've a burden to drag

and leagues to go"

I left her down by the seaside

in someone's hall

By dawn's empty light I cried

to no-one at all

Here I am

here I am

Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me

could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

harder for me

I swing between

tears and wonder

I swing between

tears and wonder

I swing between

tears and wonder

I swing between

tears and wonder

Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me

could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

harder for me

Harder for me