The Fabled Hare-Maddy Prior

[ti:The Fabled Hare] [ar:Maddy Prior] [al:Year] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Fabled Hare - Maddy Prior [00:18.93]I shall go until a hare [00:23.35] [00:24.12]Wi sorrow and such mickle care [00:28.93] [00:29.82]I sall go in the devil's name [00:33.95] [00:34.87]An while I go home again [00:40.62] [01:11.79]I am ruled by the moon [01:14.99] [01:15.86]I move under her mantle [01:21.29]I am the symbol of her moods [01:25.71]Of rebirths cycle [01:29.11] [01:33.71]I am companion to the Gods [01:37.30] [01:37.95]I can conceive while I am pregnant [01:43.09] [01:43.61]I call the dawn and spring in [01:47.35] [01:47.88]I am the advent [01:52.94] [02:18.61]I bring life from water [02:22.31] [02:23.16]In a cup that must be broken [02:27.53] [02:28.62]I whisper to the bursting egg [02:32.40] [02:33.07]I'm Aestre's token [02:37.56] [03:18.43]Scent of dog scent of man [03:21.36]Closer closer smell them coming [03:24.15]Hot breath hot death [03:26.65] [03:27.16]Closer closer hard the running [03:30.22]Tongues pant hearts thump [03:33.11]Closer closer through the fields [03:36.16]Teeth snap bones crack [03:39.03]Closer closer at my heels [03:42.04]Nearer yet and nearer [03:44.80]I can hear the hunter's knife [03:47.93]He is running for his dinner [03:50.94]I am running for my life [03:54.97] [04:05.82]Scent of dog scent of man [04:08.23] [04:08.77]Closer closer smell them coming [04:11.08] [04:11.60]Hot breath hot death [04:14.01] [04:14.62]Closer closer hard the running [04:17.65]Tongues pant hearts thump [04:20.53]Closer closer through the fields [04:23.55]Teeth snap bones crack [04:26.43]Closer closer at my heels [04:29.51]Nearer yet and nearer [04:31.77] [04:32.35]I can hear the hunter's knife [04:35.38]He is running for his dinner [04:38.38]I am running for my life [04:44.76] [05:26.12]Winter wakeneth al my care [05:31.37] [05:32.15]Nou this leues waxeth bare; [05:36.91] [05:38.04]Ofte y sike ant mourne sare [05:42.95] [05:43.93]When hit cometh in my thoht [05:49.14] [05:49.90]Of this worldes joie hou hit geth al to noht [06:00.62] [06:07.72]Winter wakeneth al my care [06:12.66] [06:13.45]Nou this leues waxeth bare; [06:18.49] [06:19.28]Ofte y sike ant mourne sare [06:24.21] [06:25.02]When hit cometh in my thoht [06:30.30] [06:30.97]Of this worldes joie hou hit geth al to noht [06:41.33] [07:25.13]Man sprays no weeds [07:30.12] [07:30.84]The scythe cuts the corn bleeds [07:36.19] [07:37.38]Leverets trapped in a harvest blade [07:41.91] [07:42.67]'Tis the time of man the hare said [07:48.26] [07:50.19]Here's the tractor here's the plough [07:54.70]And where shall we go now [07:58.83] [07:59.83]We'll lie in forms as still as the dead [08:04.48] [08:05.03]In the open fields the hare said [08:10.61] [08:12.33]No cover but the camouflage [08:16.56] [08:17.20]From the winter's wild and bitter rage [08:22.47] [08:23.13]All our defence is in our legs [08:27.16] [08:27.83]We run like the wind the hare said [08:33.92] [08:35.55]Man sprays no weeds [08:40.12] [08:40.90]The scythe cuts the corn bleeds [08:46.66] [08:47.54]Leverets trapped in a harvest blade [08:51.58] [08:52.43]'Tis the time of man the hare said [08:57.03] [10:01.05]I've been cursed I've been despised [10:03.18]As a witch with darkest powers [10:05.56]I shall go until a hare [10:09.92] [10:10.51]I've been hunted trapped and punished [10:13.20]In these my darkest hours [10:15.35]Wi' sorrow and such mickle care [10:19.56] [10:20.25]I've been thrown into the fire [10:22.67]But I do not fear it [10:24.87]I shall go until a hare [10:29.63]It purifies and resurrects [10:32.37]And I can bear it [10:34.71]Wi' sorrow and such mickle care [10:39.18] [10:44.20]I shall go until a hare [10:48.24] [10:54.10]Wi' sorrow and such mickle care [10:58.44]I've outrun dogs and foxes [11:00.80]And I've dodged the tractor wheels [11:03.14]I shall go until a hare [11:07.92]I've survived your persecution [11:09.83]And your ever-changing fields [11:12.44] [11:13.09]Wi' sorrow and such mickle care [11:16.98] [11:17.60]I will run and run forever [11:19.82]Where the wild fields are mine [11:22.30]I shall go until a hare [11:27.01]I'm a symbol of endurance [11:29.29]Running through the mists of time [11:31.91]Wi' sorrow and such mickle care