On her album called Waiting For The Hero, on which all songs are excellent and some, like this one, positively sublime: Lines in parentheses are repeated in each verse. HOW TO FIND TRUE LOVE Anne Lister (Waiting For The Hero) Walk into the forbidden forest (how does the story end?) Fight your way through thorns and brambles (in the nightmare's den) Treat each one you meet with kindness There are so many kinds of blindness The night is deep, and dark, and mindless (is that how the story ends?) Tiptoe past the sleeping giant (how...) Keep your courage, stay defiant (in...) Steal the treasures from his keeping There are so many ways of sleeping No time to stop, for joy you're weeping (is that...) Find the prince, find how to kiss him () Don't search too hard or you might miss him () Sew a shirt of stinging nettles Burn your thumb on a boiling kettle, and Burst out of the cage of metal () Does it have a happy ending? () Or is it heartbreak beyond mending? () Get out of a bag strung from the rafters Tears of joy with tears of laughter We'll live happily ever after, and That's how the story ends. Does it have a happy ending? () Or is it heartbreak beyond mending? () Get out of a bag strung from the rafters Tears of joy and tears of laughter We'll live happily ever after That's how the story ends That's how the story ends.
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