Lyrics:

Inspired by by the myth of Orpheus this song describes a passionate love that Orpheus felt for this wife Eurydice and that Nick had described before when meeting his wife for the first time.

It's up in the morning and on the downs
Little white clouds like gamboling lambs
And I am breathless over you
And the red-breasted robin beats his wings
His a-throat it trembles when he sings

For he is helpless before you

The happy hooded bluebells bow
And bend their heads all down
Heavied by the early morning dew
At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook
The fishes leap up-a to take a look

For they are breathless over you

Still your hands and still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your mind and still your soul
For still the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you

The wind circles among the trees
And it bangs about the new-made leaves
For it is a-breathless without you
And the fox chases the rabbit around
And the rabbit hides beneath the ground

For he is defenseless without you

The sky of daytime dies away
And all the earthly things they stop to play
For we are all breathless without you
I listen to my juddering bones
And the blood in my veins, the wind in my lungs

And I am a-breathless without you

Still your hands and still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your soul and still your mind
For still the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you