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The Time I've Lost in Wooing

from Whatever Says the Clock by Romain Gutsy

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Lyrics by Thomas Moore

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The time I’ve lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light, that lies
In woman’s eyes,
Has been my heart’s undoing.
Though Wisdom oft has sought me,
I scorn’d the lore she brought me,
My only books
Were woman’s looks,
And folly’s all they’ve taught me.

But while her eyes were on me,
If once their ray
Was turn’d away,
Oh! winds could not outrun me.

Her smile when Beauty granted,
I hung with gaze enchanted,
Like him the Sprite,
Whom maids by night
Oft meet in glen that’s haunted.
Like him, too, Beauty won me,
But while her eyes were on me,
If once their ray
Was turn’d away,
Oh! winds could not outrun me.

But while her eyes were on me,
If once their ray
Was turn’d away,
Oh! winds could not outrun me.

And are those follies going?
And is my proud heart growing
Too cold or wise
For brilliant eyes
Again to set it glowing?
No, vain, alas! th’ endeavour
From bonds so sweet to sever;
Poor Wisdom’s chance
Against a glance
Is now as weak as ever.

But while her eyes were on me,
If once their ray
Was turn’d away,
Oh! winds could not outrun me.

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from Whatever Says the Clock, released October 9, 2020

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Romain Gutsy France

Romain Gutsy is a French-born songwriter, singer and musician, whose first solo album (2020, under the name of THE RED) is dedicated to American and Irish poets.

Influenced by country music as well as Irish and American folk singers, Romain Gutsy treats his music with no fixed rules which would enclose it in very definite style.
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