The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid

Mother I can hear your foot-fall now

Soft disturbance in the dead-fall how

It proceeds you like a black smoke pall

Still the wanting comes in waves

And you delivered me from danger then

Pulled my cradle from the reedy glen

Swore to save me from the world of men

Still the wanting comes in waves

In waves

And waves

And the wanting comes in waves

And the wanting comes in waves

And I want this night

And I want this night

Oh

How I made you

I wrought you, I pulled you

From war I labored you

From cancer I cradled you

And now

This is how I am repaid

This is how I am repaid

Remember when I found you

The miseries that hounded you

And I gave you motion

Anointed with lotions

And now

This is how I am repaid

This is how I am repaid

Mother hear this proposition right

Grant me freedom to enjoy this night

And I'll return to you at break of light

For the wanting comes in waves

And waves

And waves

Still the wanting comes in waves

Still the wanting comes in waves

Still the wanting comes in waves

And you owe me life

And you owe me life

And if I grant you this favor to hand you

Your life for the evening

I will retake by morning

And so

Consider it your debt repaid

Consider it your debt repaid

Repaid

Repaid