Two different perspectives of a long-running affair between two married people with families. The man is an emotional turmoil of guilt and possessive desire - while the woman is comfortable with the arrangement as it lets her have her cake and eat it too. And nobody's any the wiser.
Style/Mood: percussive ballad. Incessant drums (toms) reflecting the males agonising. Duet with a counter melody section.
Lyrics
Lancelot & Guinevere
You come to me fire to fire
I fear we'll turn to dust and ashes
All the lives built on our trust
The scars and imprints on our hands
I can hardly stand to see you
When somebody else is there
Afraid my face will tell it all
Afraid I just won't care
Stolen minutes stolen passions
Stolen from the vaults of heaven
Stolen full from those who love us
Minds that cannot understand
That life is not a cool sequestered
Path for all who choose to stay
In spite of all our good intentions
That was not our way
I don't want to hurt her
You don't want to hurt him
How could we tell our children
That promises are easily traded
For such things as lovers' greed
As a greater need
As lovers' eyes that leave you stranded
Nowhere else to go
Motels rooms and darkened doorways
These things are not so complicated
Phone calls new year amnesties oh
When viewed in the cool light of day
Lies deceit sin's retributions
We started this only to satisfy
That's the limbo where we meet
What our natures and our bodies craved
All these years and all this torment
Let's not go and throw it all away
Should have tempered what we feel
Confusing eternals with circumstance
But destiny will not be shamed
There's no need for guilt no fallen angels
Flesh will not be steeled
This is just romance
How I want to see you
Sunday I can't see you -
How I want to watch you
It's much too complicated
Walk carefree in my garden
We work together in our garden
And shave your legs wake up bad-tempered
And afternoon's the children's concert
Belly swelling with our love
I'm through with washing baby clothes
Fat and happy yes
I don't suppose
To run and laugh in our tomorrows
You realise that's why you love me
And just forget today
For you love is pain
You come to me fire to fire
You come to me fire to fire
Crying laughing oh we're dying
Crying laughing oh we're dying
Falling tangled in the sun
Your desire sweeps me away
Oh that we would not return
To places his no longer reaches
What is this What is this madness
Kisses mild his passion tempered
We have not the will to shake
Love too long and life too neat
I should have turned and walked away
Come to me my soldier boy
The day I saw your face
Make my night complete
