But all the worst we fear, let's 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 a mag and makes his arms shake When the birds are heard again and they're singing Once atrocity is hoarse from voice and shame And when the earth is trembling on some new beginning With the same sweet shock of when Adam first came Be, be, be, be, be, be as you've always been Be, be, be, be, be, be as you've always been Be as you've always been Be like the love that discovered the sin That freed the first man and will do so again And love will be good to me Be that hopeful feeling when Eden was lost That's been that straw laughter since the master was crossed Which side of the wall really suffers at cost Will never be good to me When the man who gives the order Is born next time round on the boat sent back When the body's starving at the border On TV giving people the sack Lord, when the sea rises to meet us Oh, when there's nothing 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 Be, be, be, be, be, be as you've always been Be, be, be, be, be, be as you've always been Beloved, it's disrepute That scorches the hillside and salts every root And watches the slowing and starving of troops And love will be good to me Be there in just as you stay I'll be like doors that you hold in your hand That will grow bold and unbound And the best of the blind Will never be good to me 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