This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I thought I heard the sound of my name and I looked back down behind me
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath in the far Norwegian mountains.
For there we stood two children of spring as everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind and me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof in one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof like we have no close relation.
And love is no torment and I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.
And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as an apple hard suggestion
And in the …………………………… in the hays of deserved sensation
I will and will never never thought of the sorrow
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I've lost for a moment ………………… dust on a dragonfly's wing.
And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.
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And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when she is my woman and I am her man.
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came, sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life to see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath in the far Norwegian mountains.
For there we stood two children of spring as everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind and me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof in one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof like we have no close relation.
And love is no torment and I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.
And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain as an apple hard suggestion
And in the …………………………… in the hays of deserved sensation
I will and will never never thought of the sorrow
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…………..
I've lost for a moment ………………… dust on a dragonfly's wing.
And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when you are my woman and I am your man.
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And love is no torment for we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment when she is my woman and I am her man.
Lyrics submitted by kaat
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I came here to read others' thoughts about this beautiful song. I have some thoughts of my own.
But first, let's get the lyrics up, eh?
[The version above is full of holes. When I try to edit the lyrics (to fill in yawning elipses), this site insists I "must be logged in" - which I am.
When I agree to log in again (though my name appears top right), it takes me to some other page, inviting me to view random songs.
When I search for Commune, it takes me back here but still insists I "must be logged in to edit" - which I am.]
So here, in the comments, are the full lyrics as I hear them.
Someone please put them in.
COMMUNE
by Roy Harper
I thought I heard the sound of my name
And I looked back down behind me
And with hair like the ripened wheat she came
Sure as the west wind to find me
And just for a moment I wished my life
To see our friends all around us
And I turned to her but I held my breath
In the far Norwegian mountains
For there we stood, two children of spring
As everything seemed to be gleaming
Her looking breathless clean out of my mind
And me with my crazy dreaming
To think of my friends underneath the same roof
In one common destination
When all we do is remain aloof
Like we have no close relation
[Chorus 1]
And love is my torment
And I'll take when I can
But I'll give in the moment
When you are my woman and I am your man
And I watched her makin' her first daisy chain
As her nipples hung hard and suggestive
And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted the plain
In the hazy desert of sensation
And we dreamed of all the loves we'd known
And we never never thought of the sorrow
With forelocks wound over primrose down
In the wood by the empty long barrow
Two silver greenflies to flicker the backdropping lush
Of the emerald springtime
To lust for a moment in love of another's dust
On a dragonfly's wing
[Chorus 2]
And love is no torment
For we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment
When you are my woman and I am your man
And the blackcap sings and the forest rings
With the nettles tall around me
With shafts of sun and moving things
And poems fast and slowly
And fantasies of luscious thirst
For new lust and fresh waters to seek it
Like diamonds set in realities
Of skies drawn back in secret
But somewhere out there with my heart in her care
And her prayers in the breezes that caught them
She sits like the earth as I fly to her arms
Like the showering yellows of autumn
[Chorus 3]
And love is no torment
For we'll give when we can
And we'll live in the moment
When she is my woman and I am her man