The Wheel And The Maypole Songtext / Lyric

I've got the plow if you've got the furrow

I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow home

I've got the pen if you've got the paper

Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn

You and the wheel turn



And if the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

Then we'll dash it to the ground

And if the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

We'll build one bigger all around

goes the wheel



I've got the seed if you've got the valley

I've got the big stick if you've Aunt Sally's head

I've got the time if you've got the motion

Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn

You and the wheel turn






And if the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

Then we'll dash it to the ground

And if the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

If the pot won't hold our love

We'll build one bigger all around

goes the wheel



Maypole

Maypole

Maypole you've spun me round and knocked me off my axis mundi

Maypole

Maypole

Maypole the ties that bind you will unwind to free me one day

and everything decays



Yes, everything decays

Forest tumbles down to make the soil

Planets fall apart

Just to feed the stars and stuff their larders



And what made me think we're any better

and what made me think we'd last forever

was I so naive?

of course it all unweaves



Maypole

Maypole

Maypole you've spun me round and knocked me off my axis mundi

Maypole

Maypole

Maypole the ties that bind you will unwind to free me one day

and everything decays

Pyramids and palaces to dust

Empires crumble in

Wedding cake begins to must and molder



And what made me think we're any better

and what made me think we'd last forever

was I so naive?

failing to perceive



Maypole (round goes the wheel)

Maypole (round goes the wheel)

Maypole (the ties that bind you will unwind to free me one day)

Maypole (if the pot won't hold our love)

etc.