Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
A truly old-fashioned song with words from a poem by Spanish Poet, Luis de Gongora. It muses on machinations of fate and our compliance and flow along with it.
[Instrumental Intro]
[Intro]
Fortune presents gifts
Not according to the book
Fortune presents gifts
Not according to the book
[Refrain]
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
[Verse 1]
What various paths are followed
In distributing honours and possessions
She gives awards to some
And penitent's cloaks to others
[Refrain]
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
[Verse 2]
Sometimes she robs the chief goatherd
Of his cottage and goat pen
And to whomever she fancies
The lamest goat has born two kids
[Refrain]
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
[Verse 3]
Because in a village a poor lad
Has stolen one egg
He swings in the sun
And another gets away with a thousand crimes
[Refrain]
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book was written by Dead Can Dance.
Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book was produced by Dead Can Dance.
Dead Can Dance released Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book on Mon Jul 02 1990.