The Difference

I pulled a petal from the flower to tell just where my fortune fell

About a boy beyond my caution before I lay beneath his spell

And he said, "Do you know, do you know, do you by chance know wrong from right?

"Do you know, do you know, do you know what turns pleasure to plight?

If you trust me, I know it may seem strange

I'll show you the way down into the underworld"

I did just what he asked me to

Lifted my skirt to show him my shoe

Upon a reel of the finest fiddlehead

Light as the dance around Milady's bed

The steps came faster at his insistence

Till he showed me all about the difference

"It's not about the things I promised, it's not about the vow we broke

If I am faithless or dishonest it's just the gaze that you provoke"

And he said, "Do you know, do you know, do you by chance know wrong from right?

Do you know, do you know, do you know what turns pleasure to plight?

If you kiss me, at first it may seem strange

I'll show you the way into another world"

My father shamed me just like you

Buried my name in a glass or two

Till he came to me in his darkest house

He mistook me, took me for his spouse

And my cries for a woman in the distance

So I took this knife to show him the difference

Till he came to me in his darkest house

He mistook me, took me for his spouse

And my cries for the woman in the distance

So I used this knife to show him the difference