Song Description
Love lost- On a street in Dublin a lover remembers meeting his past love and how that love is gone
| Song Length |
3:40 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Restless |
Subject |
Robots |
| Similar Artists |
Sheryl Crow |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
On Raglan Road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I might one day rue
I saw the danger and I passed
Along the enchanted way
And I said let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day
On Grafton Street in November
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passion's play
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
And I not making hay
Oh I loved too much and by such and such
Is happiness thrown away
I gave her gifts of the mind
I gave her the secret signs
That are known to the artists who have known
True gods of sound and stone
And her words and tint without stint
I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair
Like clouds over fields of May
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow
That I have loved not as I should
A creature made of clay
When the angel woos the clay he'll lose
His wings at the end of the day