The Power Out

Stand up against the wall
So I can make you out
Do do you wanna be it?
You take the power out.
One day we'll be wandering

Girl you'll be a dandy
And a deserter
You sit astride your horses
Dressed as Nelson

I wanna see her
I wanna see her
I wanna see her with her horses
Oh yeah

I bet I'd like your underwear
I bet I'd like your underwear
I bet I'd like your underwear

You got it down
You got it down
Uh huh
You got it down
You got it down

I heard it from the valleys
I heard it ringing in the mountains
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

I heard it from the valleys
I heard him singing in the mountains
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Robert, when I drowse to-night
Skirting lawns of sleep to chase
Shifting dreams in mazy light
Somewhere then I'll see your face
Turning back to bid me follow
Where I wag my arms and hollow
Over hedges hasting after
Crooked smile and baffling laughter
We know such dreams are true

He's come back, all mirth and glory
-Running tireless, floating, leaping
-Down your web-hung woods and valleys
-Where the glowworm stars are peeping
Like the prince in a fairy story
-Till I find you, quiet as stone
-On a hill-top all alone
-Staring outward, gravely pondering
-Jumbled leagues of hillock-wandering
Winter called him far away
-You and I have walked together
-In the starving winter weather
-We've been glad because we knew
-Time's too short and friends are few
Blossoms bring him home with May
-We've been sad because we missed
-One whose yellow head was kissed
-By the gods, who thought about him
-Till they couldn't do without him

Now he's here again
Standing in a wood that swings
To the madrigal he sings
And I'm sure, as here I stand,
That he shines through every land
That he sings in every place
Where we're thinking of his face

While we know such dreams are true

I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard and you wanted to tell me

I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard and you wanted to tell me
Oh I don't want to hear it

Turn it up

I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard and you wanted to tell me

That you're the man
That you're the man
That you're the man, you've got all of the answers
I don't think you do

Turn it up yeah yeah

I saw a light And it shone Yeah it shone All around your head My friend there's no time For all our plans Now you're gone There's no way back from here Sometimes I just want to change But the people keep saying You can't give up your own ways Can you tell me how I could be so blind to Ever let you go, when I wanted you around? You know I was just waiting for you to come over I thought that you knew it I never told you that I, I've been looking out for you I've been thinking about you I could, I could, I could, I could, I could, I could, I could not tell you

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