(I’ll Love You) Till the End of the World

[Verse 1]

It was a miracle I even got out of Longwood alive

This town full of men with big mouths and no guts;

I mean if you can just picture it

The whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast

And the street below showered in shards of broken glass

And all the drunks pouring out of the dance halls

Staring up at the smoke and the flames;

And the blind pencil seller waving his stick

Shouting for his dog that lay dead on the side of the road;

And me, if you can believe this

At the wheel of the car

Closing my eyes and actually praying;

Not to God above but to you, saying:

[Chorus]

Help me, girl; help me, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

With your eyes black as coal

And your long dark curls

[Verse 2]

Some things we plan

We sit and we invent and we plot and cook up;

Others are works of inspiration, of poetry;

And it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel stairs

To say my last goodbye

To a hair as white as snow and of pale blue eyes

Saying:

I gotta go; I gotta go

The bomb and the bread basket are ready to blow

In this town of men with big mouths and no guts

The pencil seller's dog, spooked by the explosion

Leaping under my wheels as I careered out of Longwood

On my way to you waiting in your dress

In your dress of blue

[Chorus]

I said:

Thank you, girl; thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

With your eyes black as coal

And your long, dark curls

[Verse 3]

And with the horses prancing through the fields

With my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield;

I sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you

Waiting for me

In your dress of blue

[Chorus]

Thank you, girl. Thank you, girl

I'll love you till the end of the world

With your eyes black as coal

And your long, dark curls