Intro: | | Verse: 1 When all the worst we fear lets fall its weight When the gyre widens on and when the wave breaks When St. Peter loses cool and bars the gates When Atlas acts the maggot, makes his arms shake When the birds are heard again in their singin' Once atrocity is hoarse from voicin' shame And when the earth is trembling on some new beginnin' With the same sweet shock of when Adam first came Pre-Chorus: Be, be, be, be, be Be as you've always been Be, be, be, be, be Be as you've always been (Lover, be good to me) Be as you've always been (Lover, be good to me) Be like the love that discovered the sin (Lover, be good to me) That freed the first man and will do so again And, lover, be good to me (Lover, be good to me) Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost (Lover, be good to me) It's been deaf to our laughter since the master was crossed (Lover, be good to me) Which side of the wall really suffers that cost? Oh, lover, be good to me Instrumental: | | Verse: 2 When the man who gives the order Is born next time 'round on the boat sent back When the bodies starvin' at the border Are on TV givin' people the sack Oh, when the sea rises to meet us Oh, when there's nothin' left for you and I to do Oh, when there's nobody upstairs to receive us When I have no kind words left, love for you Pre-Chorus: Be, be, be, be, be Be as you've always been Be, be, be, be, be Be as you've always been (Lover, be good to me) Ah, be love in its disrepute (Lover, be good to me) Scorches the hillside and salts every root (Lover, be good to me) And watches the slowin' and starvin' of troops And, lover, be good to me (Lover, be good to me) Be there and just as you stand (Lover, be good to me) Or be like the rose that you hold in your hand (Lover, be good to me) That will grow bold in a barren and desolate land Oh, lover, be good to me Outro Love, won't you be Love, won't you be Be as you've always been? Love, won't you be Love, won't you be Be as you've always been? Love, won't you be Love, won't you be Be as you've always been? Love, won't you be Love, won't you be Be as you've always been?