[Verse 1]
Can you see who it might be?
Tell old man to ring the bell
Climb the steps up from the sea
Strange and dark and very tall

[Verse 2]
Can you see who it might be?
Visitors—they are so few
Head so proud but curls so free
Yeah, looks like someone I once knew

[Chorus]
David of the Viking heart
Glitter of the sea
It couldn't
It wouldn't
It daren't be

[Verse 3]
The men they see him up the coast
At the drinking house of Morley Arms
He hails the sea with every toast
And he hails the ladies with his charms

[Verse 4]
All the ladies he does love
Each day I saw his bosom swell
He's not like me—I love but one
And I love that one and I know him well
[Chorus]
Ah—but all the love
In the world was not enough
So I couldn't
I wouldn't
I daren't say no

[Verse 5]
Oh David—how you made me feel
Every crack in every wall
Climb above the traps of man
And shout above the siren's call

[Verse 6]
But now the siren's all you hear
Shamed and dizzy you can't stop
All the things we used to fear
Oh, are you spinning, little top?

[Chorus]
The strangeness of it all
Is you know yourself so well
But you couldn't
You wouldn't
You daren't say no
[Verse 8]
Signs of you—they disappeared
Poems and candles—I don't need
Flowers that you brought to me
Fell into a book I never read

[Verse 8]
I cut my hair off like a man
Too much trouble and what's more
It was tarnished by your hand
Gone my hair—into a drawer

[Chorus]
I said—should you leave?
And you—you just agreed
So we couldn't
We wouldn't
We daren't say no

[Verse 9]
Now I have been a woman true
Taking all that life does send
I thought I could love just you
But the heart does sway and the body does bend

[Verse 10]
Tales of you sometimes they come
I smile and nod quite naturally
My thoughts so rarely to you run
I watch the glitter of the sea
[Verse 11]
Can you see who it might be?
Tell old man to ring the bell
Climb the steps up from the sea
I cannot see—I know him well

[Chorus]
David of the Viking heart
Glitter of the sea
It couldn't
It wouldn't
It daren't be