Shameless Love - June Tabor

Some will call it a love song, honey

Lost in the melody, lost in the rhyme

Just another song about love gone funny

Heard it before a thousand times

But it’s shameless love that sings the song

When it’s all been sung and the music ends

Tears are only salty water

And it’s shameless love again…

Some say love is an outlaw raven

Sun goes down and away he flies

To steal the blind man’s watch and chain

And ask politely for the time

Shameless love makes a thief out of me

Catch me, chain me to the prison walls

I’ll rust the chains with salty water

Shameless love will set me free

Here’s my heart and all that’s in it

Some say roses, and some say thorns

Some say I’m a fool to give it

Crazy as the moon in a midnight storm

It’s shameless love that killed the clown

Somebody turn that spotlight down

Wash his face in salty water

Then shameless love abounds

Wish you’d been the first to love me

Take me to your Texas towered plains

We could sleep and dream of one another

Far away from the raven’s wings

And its shameless love makes a dreamer out of me

Shameless love is all I feel

Tears are only salty water

And dreams are only real…