Late at night I call your name Over hills and back again In the places we once lay Lovers then we'd wander far Hand in hand you had my heart You the hunter prince, me the maid Our love was mad, our love was right So in the secrecy of night We bound ourselves for life But the royal mother wise and wild Fierce and mad and spitting fire Vowed I'd never bear your child Like a bird with no wings A puppet without its strings I am lost to you One evening while you hunted late Your wicked mother sealed my fate Never would I sit upon her throne Oh, but me the prey I was your star Three thousand days, from afar Cursed to walk the forest alone Like a bird with no wings A puppet without its strings I am lost to you Ten years a doe, my life near done I stepped toward your loaded gun With a crack fell to the forest floor On my lips with my last breath I spoke the words that I knew best "I love you now and forever more"