GYPSY MAKER


The moon is round and the blood is drowned
Inside my veins
There's a lady here now who drives deep in the forest
Likes to laugh in the rain

I'm feeling slightly dizzy
Been so many to forsake her
Spilling tears on my shoulder
Wants to meet the gypsy maker

Pirates of pity strike terror deep
In the hearts of men
Seems the next stage too often you can't win
Run from the lion's den

I feel like an explorer
Even while I embrace her
Quicksand underfoot she
Wants to meet the gypsy maker

Bag of tricks is bottomless
But this is no wild card
'Twas the problems of others that struck this
Jagged cutting shard

I feel like I'm a telescope
Ain't no mover and shaker
Magnifying only black holes
Trying to meet the gypsy maker

The water laps and shadows sap
Victories of the day
There's a cramped kind of situation
Trapped pets unscrewing jars

My schedule I'm revising
She got no givers just takers
As she mumbles 'bout broken promises
Wants to meet the gypsy maker

[Solo].

Old wounds are aching by crystal lake
My tongue is numb
There's a lady here now felt most everything
You know she done her sums

Seems two and two ain't making four now
But I ain't gonna forsake her
Hopes and bodies merge in grief's twilight
She wants to meet her gypsy maker



© David Lowe 1989