Middle Ages Lyrics

[Vocals: Marilisa Valtazanou and Mich Sampson]



[Verse:]

Robin walks down to the place by the river

When once he first kissed his maid fair

He stoops down and frowns at his face in the water

(and) thinks "Lovely, another grey hair

Is it time that I hung up my bow and my quiver?

Have I uttered my very last 'Stand and deliver!'?"

But the breeze breaks the glass with a rippling shiver

And he looks, but he's no longer there



[Verse:]

Marian slowly walks down through the forest

Her long silver hair in a braid

"Am I still the girl that the legends have sung of?"

She wonders, and feels herself fade

"Is it time to step down from a younger girl's throne?

I was too busy living to see how time's flown -

The silent glissando from maiden to crone."

Is she ready? Or is she afraid?



[Bridge:]

And down at the inn all the Merry Men gather

In their musty and quaint Sunday best

They're raising their tankards to old Friar Tuck

Whose bones they have just laid to rest

And Little John leans down to Alan-a-Dale

Whose shaking hands never stop strumming

Says, "Somehow each one of us knew this must come

And somehow not one saw it coming…"



[Verse:]

The village's children run in with a whoop

In their minds, time is endless and vast

Robin and Marian look at themselves

In a mirror that points to the past:

At the young girls and boys with their chirrupping cries

With their bows in their hands, and with stars in their eyes

And, oh, how those smiles take their hearts by surprise

And they know that the legends will last



[Verse:]

Robin Hood sinks into Marian's eyes

Where the crows' feet touch kindness and light

She tells him, "The rich are still rich, but the poor

Oh, they're richer by far for your fight."

And the pipe and the tabor ring out through the woods

The fire's kept burning, and everything's good

And Marian's hand closes round Robin Hood's

As they slowly walk into the night...