Mona Bone Jakon

My Lady d'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still? 

I'll wake you tomorrow 

and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill. 

  

My Lady d'Arbanville why does it grieve me so? 

But your heart seems so silent. 

Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low, 

  

My Lady d'Arbanville why do you sleep so still? 

I'll wake you tomorrow 

and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill. 

  

My Lady d'Arbanville, you look so cold tonight. 

Your lips feel like winter, 

your skin has turned to white, your skin has turned to white. 

  

My Lady d'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still? 

I'll wake you tomorrow 

and you will be my fill, yes, you will be my fill. 

  

La la la la la.... 

  

My Lady d'Arbanville why does it grieve me so? 

But your heart seems so silent. 

Why do you breathe so low, why do you breathe so low, 

  

I loved you my lady, though in your grave you lie, 

I'll always be with you 

This rose will never die, this rose will never die. 

  

I loved you my lady, though in your grave you lie, 

I'll always be with you 

This rose will never die, this rose will never die.

Now maybe you're right and maybe you're wrong 

But I ain't gonna argue with you no more 

I've done it for too long. 

It was getting so good why then, where did it go? 

I can't think about it no more tell me if you know. 

You were loving me, I was loving you 

But now there aint nothing but regretting 

nothing, nothing but regretting everything we do. 

  

I put up with your lies like you put up with mine, 

But God knows we should have stopped somewhere, 

we could have taken the time, 

But time has turned, yes, some call it the end. 

So tell me, tell me did you really love me like a friend? 

You know you don't have to pretend, 

It's all over now It'll never happen again, no no no, 

it'll never happen again , it won't happen again 

Never, never, never, it'll never happen again 

No, no, no, no..... 

  

So maybe you're right, and maybe you're wrong 

But I ain't gonna argue with you no more 

I've done it for too long. 

It was getting so good why then, where did it go? 

I can't think about it no more tell me if you know. 

You were loving me, I was loving you 

But now there aint nothing but regretting 

nothing, nothing but regretting everything we do.

Yes I'm going to be a pop star. 

Yes I'm going to be a pop star, now. 

Yes I'm going to be a pop star. 

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me 

I'm a pop star. 

  

Yes, I'm going on the T.V. now. 

Yes, I'm going on the T.V. now. 

Yes, I'm going on the T.V. now. 

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me 

on the T.V. 

  

Yes, I'm going on my first gig. 

Yes, I'm going on my first gig. 

Yes, I'm going on my first gig. 

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me 

on my first gig. 

  

Now listen to me, 

La da na la, na da la... 

  

Well, I'm going to the cold bank, cold bank. 

Yes, I'm going to the cold bank. 

Yes, I'm going to the cold bank. 

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me 

at the cold bank. 

  

Mama see me! 

La da na la, na da la... 

  

Well, I'm coming, coming, coming home now. 

Yes, I'm coming, coming, coming home now. 

Yes, I'm coming, coming, coming home now. 

Oh mama, mama see me, mama, mama see me 

I'm home.

I used to trust nobody, trusting even less their words, 

until I found somebody, there was no one I preferred, 

my heart was made of stone, my eyes saw only misty grey, 

Until you came into my life girl, I saw everyone that way. 

Until I found the one I needed at my side, 

I think I would have been a sad man all my life. 

  

I think I see the light coming to me, 

coming through me giving me a second sight. 

So shine, shine, shine, 

shine, shine, shine, 

shine, shine, shine. 

  

I used to walk alone, every step seemed the same. 

This world was not my home, so there was nothing much to gain. 

Look up and see the clouds, look down and see the cold floor. 

Until you came into my life girl, I saw nothing, nothing more. 

Until I found the one I needed at my side, 

I think I would have been a sad man all my life. 

  

I think I see the light coming to me, 

coming through me giving me a second sight. 

So shine, shine, shine, 

shine, shine, shine, 

shine, shine, shine.

Trouble 

Oh trouble set me free 

I have seen your face 

And it's too much too much for me 

  

Trouble 

Oh trouble can't you see 

You're eating my heart away 

And there's nothing much left of me 

  

I've drunk your wine 

You have made your world mine 

So won't you be fair 

So won't you be fair 

  

I don't want no more of you 

So won't you be kind to me 

Just let me go where 

I'll have to go there 

  

Trouble 

Oh trouble move away 

I have seen your face 

and it's too much for me today 

  

Trouble 

Oh trouble can't you see 

You have made me a wreck 

Now won't you leave me in my misery 

  

I've seen your eyes 

and I can see death's disguise 

Hangin' on me 

Hangin' on me 

  

I'm beat, I'm torn 

Shattered and tossed and worn 

Too shocking to see 

Too shocking to see 

  

Trouble 

Oh trouble move from me 

I have paid my debt 

Now won't you leave me in my misery 

  

Trouble 

Oh trouble please be kind 

I don't want no fight 

And I haven't got a lot of time

Yes, I've got a Mona Bone Jakon 

But it won't be lonely for long. 

Yes, I've got a Mona Bone Jakon 

But it won't be lonely for long. 

  

Yes, I've got my reasons and to me they're all true, 

and I wouldn't change them, not even for you. 

  

Yes, I've got a Mona Bone Jakon 

But it won't be lonely for long. 

  

Yeah!...

I wish I knew, I wish I knew 

what makes me, me, and what makes you, you. 

It's just another point of view, ooo. 

A state of mind I'm going through, yes. 

So what I see is never true, ahhh. 

  

I wish I could tell, I wish I could tell 

what makes a heaven what makes a hell. 

And do I get to ring my bell, ooo. 

Or land up in some dusty cell, no. 

While others reach the big hotel, yeah. 

  

I wish I had, I wish I had 

the secret of good, and the secret of bad. 

Why does this question drive me mad? ahhh. 

'Cause I was taught when but a lad, yes, 

That bad was good and good was bad, ahhh. 

  

I wish I knew the mystery of 

that thing called hate, and that thing called love. 

What makes the in-between so rough? ahhh. 

Why is it always push and shove? ahhh 

I guess I just don't know enough, yes.

I sit beside the dark 

Beneath the mire 

Cold grey dusty day 

The morning lake 

Drinks up the sky 

  

Katmandu I'll soon be seeing you 

And your strange bewildering time 

Will hold me down 

  

Chop me some broken wood 

We'll start a fire 

White warm light the dawn 

And help me see 

Old satan's tree 

  

Katmandu I'll soon be touching you 

And your strange bewildering time 

Will hold me down 

  

Pass me my hat and coat 

Lock up the cabin 

Slow night treat me right 

until I go 

Be nice to know 

  

Katmandu I'll soon be seeing you 

And your strange bewildering time 

Will keep me home

Time rise 

Time fall 

Time leaves you nothing, 

nothing at all 

  

Words, just words don't know 

Words take you nowhere, 

nowhere to go, to go. 

  

Back.... 

I'm going back. 

Ooo, going back.

And in the morning when you fill my eyes 

I knew that day I couldn't do, 

Ahh, no wrong, I couldn't do. 

  

And so my mind begins to memorize 

'Cause time will never seem the same, 

Ahh, no more, never again. 

  

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't go, 

My legs are weak my heels are low. 

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't roll. 

Can't make no headway on this road. 

  

There's an empty space inside me now, 

A wasteland deep beneath the snow, 

So cold, nothing'll grow. 

  

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't go, 

My legs are weak my heels are low. 

I'm just a coaster but my wheels won't roll. 

Can't make no headway on this road. What road? 

  

And in the morning when you fill my eyes 

I knew that day I couldn't do, 

Ahh, no wrong, I couldn't do.

Back up on the mended road 

I pause 

taking time to check the dial 

  

And the Lilywhite 

I never knew her name 

But she'll be passing my way sometime again. 

  

I raise my hand and touch the wheel 

of change 

taking time to check the dial 

  

Thank the Lilywhite 

I never knew her name 

But she'll be passing my way sometime again. 



But she'll be passing my way sometime again.