Gimli:
Why, elf-prince, why can't I love where I will?
Strive though I may, I am bound to you still.
Legolas:
Caught in this spell, there is naught I can do.
Little dwarf-savage, why must it be you?
Gimli:
Legolas, elf-prince, that I've hated so long,
How can the fates have chosen so wrong?
Gimli:
Elf-prince, how altered you seem now to me.
Is it you spirit shape that I can see?
Legolas:
Little dwarf-savage, how can it be true?
Go where I will, I am drawn back to you.
Gimli:
What are we seeing in each other's eyes?
Legolas:
Why are we stricken so? Why do you cry?
Gimli:
I never wanted this. I want to be free.
Legolas:
How could I love one so alien to me?
However I try, I am bound to you.
Gimli:
Can't anyone tell me? What can I do?
Legolas:
Both of us helpless to alter our fate.
Why are we bound where by right we should hate?
Gimli:
I cannot escape you. I won't even try.
I will fight no longer what I can't deny.
Legolas:
Then, dwarf Gimli, come finish with me.
Our bond will be sealed and let us go free.
Gimli:
Separated we may become, but our bond will abide.
As long as I live, elf, I'll be by your side.
Both:
Why are we bound where our people won't go?
How could our fate have imprisoned us so?
Unwilling love that falls on us still,
Breaking as nothing our pride and our will.
But through this night there comes a new dawn;
our soul-mates are found though our pride now is gone.