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Winter comes and snow
I can't marry you, you know
Without children to grow
I can't marry you, you know

Love me the way I love you
Love me the way I love you

Take a year in your hand
You can find another man
Let your unloved parts get loved
And I will be your man

Love me the way I love you
Love me the way I love you

Places you should be afraid
Into the river we will wade

Love me the way I love you
Love me the way I love you
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Cover art for The Way lyrics by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

nice sunday morning song.

Cover art for The Way lyrics by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

I don't know what this song is about besides the obvious, but I love it. It sets my soul to rest.

I think it is about a man who is infertile but in love with a woman. He loves her but he doesn't feel he can marry her, perhaps because she feels that without children she won't be happy.: 'I can't marry you: without children to grow'

He is telling her to go off and find a man to impregnate her: 'love her unloved parts'.... so that she can come back and then he will marry her: 'I will be your man'

It would have been a very untraditional thing to do in the past so perhaps it might seem scary:...

In another version of it it says 'without you winter grows' which makes me think of a different scenario....but I am not sure what...

Would like to know what other people think of this song

 
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