The Wheel & The Maypole Lyrics - Xtc

I've got the plough if you've got the furrow 

I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow home 

I've got the pen if you've got the paper 

Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn 

You and the wheel turn 

And if the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

Then we'll dash it to the ground 

And if the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

We'll build one bigger all around, goes the wheel 

I've got the seed if you've got the valley 

I've got the big stick if you've Aunt Sally's head 

I've got the time if you've got the motion 

Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn 

You and the wheel turn 

And if the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

Then we'll dash it to the ground 

And if the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

If the pot won't hold our love 

We'll build one bigger all around, goes the wheel 

Maypole, maypole, maypole, you've spun me 'round 

And knocked me off my axis mundi, maypole 

Maypole, maypole, the ties that bind you will unwind 

To free me one day and everything decays 

Everything decays, forest tumbles down 

To make the soil, planets fall apart 

Just to feed the stars and stuff their larders 

And what made me think we're any better 

And what made me think we'd last forever 

Was I so naive? Of course, it all unweaves 

Maypole, maypole, maypole, you've spun me 'round 

And knocked me off my axis mundi, maypole 

Maypole, maypole, the ties that bind you will unwind 

To free me one day and everything decays 

Pyramids and palaces to dust, empires crumble in 

Wedding cake begins to must and moulder 

And what made me think we're any better 

And what made me think we'd last forever 

Was I so naive? Failing to perceive 

Maypole, round goes the wheel 

Maypole, round goes the wheel 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day 

Maypole, the ties that bind 

You will unwind to free me one day