Oh What is Love?

from The Weight of Smoke by Edible Tent

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Now what is love? I pray thee, tell.
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell. It is perhaps the sauncing bell
That tolls all into heaven or hell:
And this is love, as I hear tell.

Yet what is love? I pray thee say. It is a work on holy-day;
It is December matched with May;
When lusty bloods, in fresh array,
Hear ten months after of the play:
And this is love, as I hear say.

Yet what is love? I pray thee sain.
It is a sunshine mixed with rain;
It is a tooth-ache, or like pain;
It is a game where none hath gain; The lass saith no, and would full fain: And this is love, as I hear sain.

Yet what is love? I pray thee say. It is a yea, it is a nay,
A pretty kind of sporting fray;
It is a thing will soon away;
Then take the vantage while you may:
And this is love, as I hear say.

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from The Weight of Smoke, released January 3, 2022
Words: Sir Walter Raleigh. Music: Hugh Nankivell/Peter Spafford. Piano/vocal: Spafford. Double bass: Dave Bowie Jnr.

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Edible Tent is the moniker for projects by Peter Spafford in collaboration with other artists. Peter Spafford is a writer and songwriter based in Leeds. He is also one half of Schwa.

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