Released: October 10, 2006
Featuring: Edin Karamazov
Songwriter: John Dowland
Producer: Edin Karamazov Sting
[Verse 1]
Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak?
Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke?
Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find?
No, no, where shadows do for bodies stand
Thou may be abused if thy sight be dimmed
Cold love is like to words written on sand
Or to bubbles which on the water swim
[Chorus 1][x2]
Wilt thou be thus abused still
Seeing that she will right thee never?
If thou can't not overcome her will
Thy love will be thus fruitless ever
[Verse 2]
Was I so base, that I might not aspire
Unto those high joys which she holds from me?
As they are high, so high is my desire
If this she deny, what can granted be?
If she will yield to that which reason is
It is reason's will that love should be just
Dear, make me happy still by granting this
Or cut off delays if that I die must
[Chorus 2][x2]
Better a thousand times to die
Than for to live thus still tormented
Dear, but remember it was I
Who for thy sake did die contented
Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak?
Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke?
Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find?
No, no, where shadows do for bodies stand
Thou may be abused if thy sight be dimmed
Cold love is like to words written on sand
Or to bubbles which on the water swim
[Chorus 1][x2]
Wilt thou be thus abused still
Seeing that she will right thee never?
If thou can't not overcome her will
Thy love will be thus fruitless ever
[Verse 2]
Was I so base, that I might not aspire
Unto those high joys which she holds from me?
As they are high, so high is my desire
If this she deny, what can granted be?
If she will yield to that which reason is
It is reason's will that love should be just
Dear, make me happy still by granting this
Or cut off delays if that I die must
[Chorus 2][x2]
Better a thousand times to die
Than for to live thus still tormented
Dear, but remember it was I
Who for thy sake did die contented
more tracks from the album
B-Sides & Rarities
- The Ballad of Mack the Knife
- How Insensitive
- Ne me quitte pas
- Every Breath You Take/Theme from Peter Gunn [Mr. Ruggerio’s Remix]
- I’ll Follow My Secret Heart
- It’s a Lonesome Old Town
- All for Love
- Invisible Sun
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Another Pyramid
- Waters of Tyne
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- Fragile (Duet)
- Love Sneakin’ Up on You
- Shallow Brown
- One Day She’ll Love Me
- Blood Red Roses
- The Bed’s Too Big Without You
- Moonlight
- Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
- Seventh Son
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Lullaby for an Anxious Child
- Gabriel’s Message
- Fine Knacks for Ladies
- The Lowest Trees Have Tops
- Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
- The Mighty
- Until
- Beneath a Desert Moon
- Angel Eyes
- My Funny Friend and Me
- My One and Only Love
- I Saw Three Ships
- You Were Meant for Me
- Need Your Love So Bad
- Windmills of Your Mind
- Sisters of Mercy
- Sister Moon
- Come Down in Time
- Tempted
- The End of the Game
From the albums
- Songs from the Labyrinth (2006)
- B-Sides & Rarities (2007)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Nothing ’Bout Me
- Tutti Frutti