Interpret:

Dead Can Dance

Album:

A Passage In Time

Fortune presents gifts
not according to the books
Fortune presents gifts
not according to the books


When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles


What various paths are followed
in distributing honors and possessions
She gives awards to some
and penitents cloaks to others


When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles


Sometimes she robs the chief goatherd
of his cottage and goatpen
and to whomever she fancies
the lamest goat is born to kids


When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles


Because in a village
a poor lad has stolen one egg
He swings in the sun
and another gets away
with a thousand crimes


When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles