[ti:First Booke of Songes, 1597 - If My Complaints Could Passions Move]
[ar:Rufus Muller/Christopher Wilson]
[al:Dowland: The First Booke of Songes]
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[00:00.00]Dowland: First Booke of Songes, 1597: 4. If my complaints could passions move - Rufus Muller/Christopher Wilson
[00:00.31]If my complaints could passions move
[00:07.73]Or make love see wherein I suffer wrong
[00:15.62]My passions were enough to prove
[00:22.87]That my despairs had govern'd me too long
[00:30.57]O love I live and die in thee
[00:37.90]Thy grief in my deep sighs still speaks
[00:46.23]Thy wounds do freshly bleed in me
[00:54.13]My heart for thy unkindness breaks
[01:02.39]Yet thou dost hope when I despair
[01:10.33]And when I hope
[01:13.07]Thou mak'st me hope in vain
[01:17.70]Thou say'st thou canst my harms repair
[01:26.00]Yet for redress
[01:28.66]Thou let'st me still complain
[01:35.78]Can love be rich and yet I want
[01:43.20]Is love my judge and yet am I condemn'd
[01:51.12]Thou plenty hast
[01:53.96]Yet me dost scant
[01:58.45]Thou made a God and yet thy power contemn'd
[02:06.01]That I do live it is thy power
[02:13.75]That I desire it is thy worth
[02:21.59]If love doth make men's lives too sour
[02:29.12]Let me not love
[02:33.20]Nor live henceforth
[02:37.29]Die shall my hopes but not my faith
[02:45.41]That you that of my fall may hearers be
[02:53.47]May here despair which truly saith
[03:01.11]I was more true to love than love to me