Fairytales and folktales are filled with heartbreak. Looking back to the storytellers of the distant past, the same threads are woven into the tapestries of our modern stories. Inspired by the Early Irish tale, The Only Jealousy of Emer, this song first appeared on The Wanderlings Volume One (2015).
Lyrics
I fell in love with an ideal
But I believed with all my heart that it was real
And when we met he felt the same
There in the light of love, true lovers we became
Our other lives melted away
We had no care but for ourselves from day to day
We were consumed by our desire
Of our embrace we promised never we would tire
Until the moment she reminded you
Who you had first been promised to
Farewell, my love
You have turned your back
Without you, love
I am painted black
My greatest loss
I am torn from bliss
You’ve chosen, love
Abandon this
I will embrace oblivion
The only place where you and I can be undone
And when the veil between us falls
We will be deaf to one another’s calls
I could only say, “It will always be this way”
I could only hope against inevitable slope
I could only live with giving all I had to give
I could only show the love I wanted you to know
A line that’s permanent divides us now
Yet life goes on, some way, somehow
Farewell, my love
You have turned your back
Without you, love
I am painted black
My greatest loss
I am torn from bliss
You’ve chosen, love
Abandon this
Be happy, love
As you forget me
We may be broken, love
But we are free