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Thread #73011   Message #1265008
Posted By: Little Hawk
05-Sep-04 - 10:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Must I Be Bound
Subject: Lyr Add: MUST I GO BOUND (from Buffy Sainte-Marie)
The words I've heard Buffy Sainte-Marie sing are:

Must I go bound and you so free?
Must I love one who doesn't love me?
Must I be born with so little art
As to love the one who would break my heart?

I leaned my back up against some oak
I thought it was a trusty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
And so did my false love to me

I put my finger to a bush
I thought I'd find a lovely flower
The thorn it pierced me to the touch
And so I left the rose behind

There is a ship that sails the sea
It's loaded down as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I am in
I know not 'ere I sink or swim

Oh love be gentle and love be kind
Gay as a jewel when first it's new
But love grows old and then grows cold
And fades away like the morning dew

Must I go bound and you so free?
Must I love one who doesn't love me?
Must I be born with so little art
As to love the one who would break my heart?



And those, I think, are the best lyrics of all for this song, specially the line "must I be born with so little art?" (way better than "childish part") They have a more universal appeal which I think practically anyone, male or female, who has loved well but not so wisely could relate to.