Scarlet Tide - Joan Baez

Must I accept his fate

Or take myself far from this place?

I thought I heard a black bell toll

A little bird did sing

Man loses all when he wants everything

And we’ll rise above the scarlet tide

That trickles down through the mountain

And separates the widow from the bride

Man goes beyond his own decision

Gets caught up in his own mechanism

Of swindlers who act like kings

And brokers who break everything

The darkest night was swiftly falling

Into the dawn of the day

Why would I want him

Just to lose him again?

And we’ll rise above the scarlet tide

That trickles down through the mountain

And separates the widow from the bride

We’ll rise above the scarlet tide

That trickles down through the mountain

And separates the widow from the bride