Long Road

This poison in my hand I hold to tempt

And to console you

If only once the man I love

Would lay me down and tell me true

I have had a long, long road

I have had a long, long road

And my weary feet are bleeding

From their wary soles

These paths that lay before me

They are dark, and they are dreary

One is sad, and one unkind

And one is deadly clearly

But one of them mine

Oh, one of them is mine

So I'll take my feet before me

Leave my doubt far behind

This led me to a place of warmth

And cold, and certain danger

And there, I found my comfort

In the arms of faring strangers

But the calm will soon too pass

Oh, the calm will soon too pass

Like a ship awaiting storms

On seas whose mercy never lasts

This man who stands before me

He is tall, and he is handsome

I fall into his arms, my blood

Dripping like a ransom

And I leave my life behind

Oh, I leave my life behind

With love upon my mind

I leave my life far behind