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When all the worst we fear let’s fall its weight

When the gyre widens on a window, wave breaks

When St Peter loses cool and bars the gates

When Atlas acts a man and makes his arms shake

When the birds are heard again and their singing

when atrocity is hoarse from voice and shame

And when the earth is trembling on some new beginnin’

With the same sweet shock of when Adam first came

Be, be, be, be, be

Be as you’ve always been

Be, be, be, be, be

Be as you’ve always been

(Lover be good to me)

Be as you’ve always been

Be like a love that discovered the sin

That freed the first man, would do so again

And lover be good to me (Lover be good to me)

Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost

That’s been next to our after since the master was crossed

Which side of the wall really suffers that cost

Oh, lover be good to me

When the man who gives the order is born next time ‘round on the boats and back

When the body is starving at the border

Or on TV given people the sack

Love, when the sea rises to meet us

Oh, when there’s nothing left for you and I to do

Oh, when there is nobody upstairs to receive us

When I have no kind words left, love, for you

Be, be, be, be, be

Be as you’ve always been

Be, be, be, be, be

Be as you’ve always been

(Lover be good to me)

Be love in its disrepute

Scorches a hillside and salts every root

And watches the slowing and starving of troops

And lover be good to me (Lover be good to me)

Be there and your stairs you stack

Or be like the rose you hold in your hand

I will grow bold in a barren and desolate land

And lover be good to me

Love, won’t you be?

Love, won’t you be?

Be as you always been?

Love, won’t you be?

Love, won’t you be?

Be as you always been?

Love, won’t you be?

Love, won’t you be?

Be as you always been?

Love, won’t you be?

Love, won’t you be?

Be as you always been?