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How to Find True Love

from Waiting for the Hero by Anne Lister

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Fairy tales as a way of imparting information are decidedly unreliable. Don’t trust a word of this. On the
other hand, I think I went through trials every bit as difficult. Just not as poetic.
It’s another Hawkwood song, by the way, from December 2003.

lyrics

Walk into the forbidden forest
How does the story end?
Fight your way through thorns and brambles
Into the nightmare’s den
Treat each one you meet with kindness
There are so many kinds of blindness
The night is deep and dark and mindless
Is that how the story ends?
Tiptoe past the sleeping giant
How does the story end?
Keep your courage, stay defiant
In the nightmare’s den
Steal the treasures from his keeping
There are so many ways of sleeping
No time to stop for joy or weeping
Is that how the story ends?
Find the prince, find how to kiss him
How does the story end?
Don’t search too hard or you might miss him
Inside the nightmare’s den
Sew a shirt of stinging nettles
Burn your thumb on the boiling kettle
Burst out of a cage of metal
Is that how the story ends?
Does it have a happy ending
How does the story end?
Or is it heartbreak beyond mending
In the nightmare’s den
Get out of the bag strung from the rafters
Tears of joy with tears of laughter
We’ll live happily ever after
That’s how the story ends.

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from Waiting for the Hero, released February 4, 2022
Anne - vocals and guitar. Steafan Hannigan - djembe, bodhran and low whistle.

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Anne Lister Wales, UK

Anne is best known for her song "Icarus", recorded and performed by a number of different singers, including Martin Simpson and Nic Jones. "Astrolabe" is her ninth solo album.

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