The Church - Why Don't You Love Me lyrics

Sometimes you're dressed in Castillian vogue
Other times you speak with a faux
(false?) Scottish brogue
Ruthless, relentless
Pursuing your defenseless quarry
Now you say you've been following me
Through my lives and deaths
From the very first tears to
The last failing breaths
You clean up the mess
You say "I must confess" you say "I'm sorry"

Some say they've seen you outside of my door
On dark
Rainy nights when the light is so poor
Maybe they're mistaken
Or maybe you're just faking evidence
They think you're a man with
The body of a libertine
Skin that's so white
Clean daylight has never seen
I wonder if you're punishment
Or prison or just providence
You say "Why, why, why why, why, why
Why, why, why don't you love me?"

How you danced with the outlaws in the old
Wild west
Carried a derringer under your vest
I know with a sneer you
Claim to have been Guinivere
But, I am not Lancelot
I was never King Arthur
I say once again "I'm not
The man that you're after"
That was a different man, he ain't been here

You say "Why, why, why why, why, why
Why, why, why don't you love me?"

You were there in Florence as
I painted the ceiling
On that old river boat
Saw the hands I was dealing
Were you there the night I discovered LSD?
You held my hand through
The straights of Magellan
At the medicine shore
Snake-oil you were selling
Wasn't that you? Wasn't that me?

You say "Why, why, why why, why, why
Why, why, why don't you love me?"

On the brink of the moon
At the foot of the Andes
The mouth of the river
As we washed in the Ganges
Pulled the arrow out my eye at Hastings
You washed my brow as I lay in a fever
You were the fulcrum, I was the lever
I'm not a believer
It's just all your time you are wasting

You're a prisoner in a tower
A damsel in distress
Love hold us in thrall, my eternal mistress
You've been wife, my lover
My sister, my mother, my maid
My partner, my consort, my bit on the side
My darling, my sweetheart
My hope and my pride
And all because of some stupid
Lyrics on "The Blurred Crusade"

You say "Why, why, why why, why, why
Why, why, why don't you love me?"