Viking Heart Lyrics - Jane Siberry

Can you see who it might be? 

Tell old man to ring the bell 

Climb the steps up from the sea 

Strange and dark and very tall 

Can you see who it might be? 

Visitors, they are so few 

Head so proud but curls so free 

Looks like someone I once knew 

David of the viking heart 

Glitter of the sea 

It couldn't, it wouldn't 

It daren't be 

The men they see him up the coast 

At the drinking house of Morley Arms 

Hails the sea with every toast 

And he hails the ladies with his charms 

All the ladies he does love 

Each day I saw his bosom swell 

He's not like me, I love but one 

And I love that one and I know him well 

Ah, but all the love 

In the world was not enough 

So I couldn't, I wouldn't 

I daren't say no 

David, how you made me feel 

Every crack in every wall 

Climb above the traps of man 

Shout above the sirens call 

But now the siren's all you hear 

Shamed and dizzy you can't stop 

All the things we used to fear 

Are you spinning little top? 

The strangeness of it all 

Is you know yourself so well 

But you couldn't, you wouldn't 

You daren't say no 

Signs of you, they disappeared 

Poems and candles, I don't need 

Flowers that you brought to me 

Fell into a book I never read 

I cut my hair off like a man 

Too much trouble and what's more 

It was tarnished by your hand 

Gone my hair into a drawer 

I said, should you leave? 

And you, you just agreed 

So we couldn't, we wouldn't 

We daren't say no 

Now I have been a woman true 

Taking all that life does send 

I thought I could love just you 

But the heart does sway and the body does bend 

Tales of you sometimes they come 

I smile and nod quite naturally 

My thoughts so rarely to you run 

I watch the glitter of the sea 

Can you see who it might be? 

Tell old man to ring the bell 

Climb the steps up from the sea 

I cannot see, I know him well 

David of the viking heart 

Glitter of the sea 

It couldn't, it wouldn't 

It daren't be