The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid Songtext

von The Decemberists

William:
Mother I can hear your footfall now
A soft disturbance in the deadfall how
It precedes you like a black smoke pall
Still the wanting comes in waves

And you delivered me from danger, then
Pulled my cradle from the reedy glen
Swore to save me from the world of men
Still the wanting comes in waves
In waves and waves

(Ooh, ooh, ooh) And the wanting comes in waves
(Ooh, ooh, ooh) And the wanting comes in waves
(Ooh, ooh, ooh) And I want this night
And I want this night, oh

The Queen:
How I made you
I wrought you
I pulled you

From ore, I labored you
From cancer, I cradled you

And now
This is how I am repaid?
This is how I am repaid?

Remember when I found you
The miseries that hounded you
And I gave you motion
Anointed with lotions

And now
This is how I am repaid?
This is how I am repaid?

William:
Mother hear this proposition right
Grant me freedom to enjoy this night
And I'll return to you at break of light
For the wanting comes in waves
And waves and waves

(Ooh, ooh, ooh) Still the wanting comes in waves
(Ooh, ooh, ooh) Still the wanting comes in waves
(Ooh, ooh, ooh) Still the wanting comes in waves
(Ooh, ooh, ooh) And you owe me life
And you owe me life, oh

The Queen:
And if I grant you
This favor to hand you
Your life for the evening
I will retake by morning

And so
Consider it your debt repaid
Consider it your debt repaid
Repaid
Repaid