Текст (слова) песни: Ballydowse - Like a Drunkard Reel (A Birth)

 
Birth like a drunkard reels and tosses me wet into the fields 
Surrounded by a company familiar and strange 
Dangled like Achilles, dripping on the floor 
The brine of a fateful journey, delivered to the door 
Of ritual and custom, the woman and the man 
With silver ring in sight of all I took my lover’s hand 
 
Deep drums beat beneath skin-covered ivory cages 
Patterns that we learned when the leaves shut out the skies 
Turned face to face near the night fire, walls aglowing 
Is that the savannah still caught up in your eyes? 
Two hunt as one for the passion that can bridge the grave 
Gathering vows to love and to be 
Walls dripping, Spirit digging eternal words from primate tongues 
Dance before their burning and come next to me 
 
Bottoms up – drink each day down 
 
Loyalty poured by mercy 
Call but one name – another round 
Commitment is a thirsting 
Wedlcok step to ancient tunes 
Till lungs they are a burstin’ 
Bottoms up – drink each day down 
Commitment is a thirsting 
 
Deep drums beat beneath skin-covered cages 
Patterns that we learned when the leaves shut out the skies 
Turned face to face across the bright pyer of any others 
That which could have been, laugh as it dies 
Two hunt as one for the passion that can bridge the grave 
Quickening vows to love and to be 
Desires ebb but to return glowing embers roar and burn 
Dance before that fire and come next to me.
 

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