Roberts/Lakeman
Ben Nicholls - Bass
Tobias May - Drums

Lyrics

You can beg, you can plead,
you can fall onto your knees
I will have my recompense.
You can run, you can hide,
you won't escape the lies
I will have my vengeance.

Hang the rowan round the doorway
even here you are not safe , keep your family beside you.
Lock the doors , attend your children.
Keep the fire burning bright , count the hours 'til morning.
Nine long years you've kept your secret.
How you dread this time of year.
Justice reaches out to take you,
take back the child you stole from me.
I am flying through the forest,
walking old familiar ways, bringing night at my heels.
I am come to keep my promise.
I am here to stake my claim, your untruth to reveal.
On that night in dark November
when you offered me your word.
Took my only daughter from me ,
hoping that no-one , no-one had heard.

Tonight will be your final chance
to confess your great mistake.
My life you took in your own hands,
I will hound you to your grave.

I turned to you for guidance,
cast aside by love and faith, I thought you were my saviour.
You sheltered me from danger,
kept me safe from prying eyes, modified my behaviour .
As you eased my child from me, my precious ray of hope.
Laid your cunning hands upon me, and placed around my neck a silken rope.