A Love You Can't Survive Lyrics

Now I remember the promise I gave you
The night I shipped out as a peace volunteer
As we sat holding hands in the Lamb and Flag tavern
I swore I'd be back for you same time next year

But I killed a man in a Brazzaville street fight
I tried to hold back, but he taunted me so
5 years till they freed me from that Brazzaville prison
Out of boredom or pity, I never will know

Now I bear the stain
The scar on my name
I never can go back again

There's a love you can't survive
And it burns you up inside

I sailed my boat into New Orleans harbour
Tied up at the jetty, as bold as you please
With a half-ton of charlie built in to the bulkhead
Right under the noses of all them police

Now here I sit in my house on the mountain
King of the clouds and all I survey
There's women who are willing, and the law can't touch me
Yours is the one face that won't go away

Richard Thompson - Old Kit Bag

May 2003

1. Gethsemane
2. Jealous Words
3. I'll Tag Along
4. A Love You Can't Survive
5. Open Door Breathes
6. First Breath
7. She Said it was Destiny
8. I've Got No Right to Have it All
9. Pearly Jim
10. Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen
11. Outside of the Inside
12. Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne
13. So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo (Orazio Vecchi, Arr. R. Thompson)
14. Kiss (Prince)
15. Richard Thompson BBC Documentary Footage