Commune

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

[Edit: The comments section seems to have messed with the spacing, deleting single line breaks. Why do sites do this? Perhaps it's just my version of Firefox on Android. Anyway, here it is again, double-spaced to overcome the auto-edit.]