Storybook Love
Written and performed by Willy DeVille and arranged by Mark Knopfler. Featured in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. English text copyright to them. Latin parody by Dylan Schrader.
| Come, my love, I'll tell you a tale Of a boy and girl and their love story And how he loved her, oh, so much And all the charms she did possess |
Venias dum fabulor de Pueri puellaeque amore. Ille amore captus tam valde Haec praedita tali decore. |
| Now this did happen once upon a time When things were not so complex And how he worshiped the ground she walked And when he looked in her eyes, he became obsessed |
Olim quidem sic factum est, Simpliciore tempore, Ut adoraverit semitas Cuius oculis motus maximopere. |
| My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel It's as real as the feelings I feel |
Amor meus, licet fabulosus, Tam verus est quam animi motus. Amor meus, licet fabulosus, Tam verus est quam animi motus. Tam verus est quam animi motus. |
| This love was stronger than the powers so dark A prince could have within his keeping His spells to weave and steal a heart Within her breast, but only sleeping |
Qui amor tenebroso potior Fuit principis robore, Qui cantionibus raperet Cor dormientis pectore. |
| My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel It's as real as the feelings I feel |
Amor meus, licet fabulosus, Tam verus est quam animi motus. Amor meus, licet fabulosus, Tam verus est quam animi motus. Tam verus est quam animi motus. |
| He said, "Don't you know I love you, oh, so much And lay my heart at the foot of your dress?" She said, "Don't you know that storybook loves Always have a happy ending"? Then he swooped her up just like in the books And on his stallion they rode away |
"Nonne scis," inquit, "quod te amo, Et cor ad oram vestis depono?" "Amores," ait, "fabulae instar Ad bonum finem perducuntur." Quae velut in scriptis subrepta est Et equo ambo vecti sunt. |
| My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel My love is like a storybook story But it's as real as the feelings I feel It's as real as the feelings I feel |
Amor meus, licet fabulosus, Tam verus est quam animi motus. Amor meus, licet fabulosus, Tam verus est quam animi motus. Tam verus est quam animi motus. |