You're lovely to me yes you arenWe've traveled togethernWe've traveled so farnYour tongue it is wisenAnd there's love in your eyes deep and bluennYou're lovely to me yes you arenAnd venus ascending is surely your starnI've seen how you shinenBut I can't make you mine it is truennYou're a midsummer mountain in bloomnHeather and linden, the fruit of your wombnThere's honey and sap in the couch of your lapnLady daynnThere's nothing you would not providenWhen all is despair you are there at my sidenIt is you that is near it is you that gives earnwhen I praynnYou're lovely to me yes you arenYou've been out on the road with a craving for tarnYou know what you need yes you're canny in deednAnd in namennYou're lovely to me yes you arenAnd I'll see you tonight in a local barnWe'll be wed before dawn and by morningnWe're one and the samennThe old ones they knew you my lovenThey set you to reason and sullied a dovenBut how could they try you or demystify you with wordsnnYou're a city that's pulling me stillnYou keep me from sleeping and strengthen my willnThe gates they are strong but they open for song Inhave heardnnYou're lovely to me yes you arenYou're the beautiful one that time cannot marnYour lost in the eyes of my love as she cries all fornjoynnYou're lovely to me yes you arenYou're the elusive chord on my old guitarnYou're hidden 'neath veils that our love making failsnto destroynnThere's all I desire in your voicenI fear I am bold but you leave me no choicenYou know that to ask me to turn from my task would benvainnnYou're a rose that for no man will yieldnYou have many names and all of them sealednYour empire is vast from the first to the last younremainnnYou're lovely to me yes you arenIt's war all the time but you bare no scarnYou glitter like sand as it runs through my hands tonthe seannYou're lovely to me yes you arenYou're my drunken companion it's right that you arenYour love takes me higher your love is the fire in men