From the recording Echo and Ash
Lyrics
The love I had for you
So long, it lingers
I don’t care you’ve got me wrapped around your fingers
Your arrival is so abrupt
Your departure so corrupt
For the real thing, baby
You’re just a dead ringer
Stay your hand
Spare this land
Take a promise to heart
We’ll make a new start
I am your dictator of love
Put a spell upon your heart that you can’t break
There’s nothing you can do
There’s no escape
I know everything you’re thinking of
Ooh, I’m your dictator of love
Your propaganda always put me down
Somehow I wound up in the underground
Your promise, so seductive
Your performance, nonproductive
Your human heart is never to be found
But, stay your hand
Spare this land
Take a promise to heart
We’ll make a new start
I am your dictator of love
Put a spell upon your heart that you can’t break
There’s nothing you can do
There’s no escape
I know everything you’re thinking of
Ooh, I’m your dictator of love
I’m your dictator
I’m your dictator
Down where the desert meets the green
The shadow of a hand passes unseen
Nothing for a young man to do
but to sit and dream
About the things that could’ve been
Stay your hand
Spare this land
Take a promise to heart
We’ll make a new start
I am your dictator of love
Put a spell upon your heart that you can’t break
There’s nothing you can do
There’s no escape
I know everything you’re thinking of
Ooh, I’m your dictator of love
I am your dictator of love
Put a spell upon your heart that you can’t break
There’s nothing you can do
There’s no escape
I know everything you’re thinking of
Ooh, I’m your dictator of love