The Dancer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by madcranberrygirl 

Cover art for The Dancer lyrics by PJ Harvey

wow...first comment! yayness! I love the guitars in this song! I think it's basically about a girl waiting for her knight in shinning armour to appear. and just by the way, it's "Dance for me faciulla gentile" and I think that verse is the translation of an italian opera song...i have a book of it and one of the songs is called "Danza, Danza Faciulla Gentile" and I think the translation is about the same. and isn't it "at the depth of my love"? instead of death?

I had to look up "Danza, Danza Faciulla Gentile" after reading your post. According to the translation "fanciulla gentile" means "gentle young girl" which I didn't know, so thank you for mentioning the aria.

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=603

https://youtu.be/MXkB37Ad5yw