The Ballad of Tenderblood

By the cliffs of Dover I couldn't sleep

Tenderblood rolled over and said to me

"I can't hear a single word that you say

The sea birds will always get their way"

In the haze of summer, your time was through

I can't decipher what they did to you

Once you were so clear I could see your bones

Now your shell is bleary like a filthy stone

Tenderblood you take my love

Like the oak and the ash and the sweet foxglove

I'll never be the bell of the ball

We have our shells and that is all

I received a letter scrawled in red

It filled my earthly body full of dread

Tenderblood must go to play his part

In a crusade that will never start

A knight in shining armor, he took the sea

Have you ever seen a turtle sail so tenderly?

Now his ship has passed the red horizon

I have the whole world to rest my eyes on

Tenderblood you take my love

Like the oak and the ash and the sweet foxglove

I'll never be the bell of the ball

We have our shells and that is all

Tenderblood you take my love

Like the oak and the ash and the sweet foxglove

I'll never be the bell of the ball

We have our shells and that is all