Al Stewart - Where Are They Now lyrics

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Al Stewart - Where Are They Now

I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mist

When they fell on your positions you were powerless to resist

Encircling and probing for the weakness in your line

By night you were surrounded; your territory mine

I called for your surrender; this you swore you would not do

So I stormed the very fortress, you thought could shelter you

I held you then upon your knees and turned to give my thanks

To the regiments assembled in their ranks

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Where are they now?

Where are they now?

I raised you to your feet, with your hand inside my own

We set off upon a journey, each together, each alone

In the days that followed oh our lives did overlap

I learned the contours of your body like the roads upon a map

You sweetened every evening, I savoured every day

Just when I was certain it would always be this way

You slipped beyond the reach of my outstretched fingertips

With all the kisses we'd placed upon your lips

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Oh close. You're close

Someone, come shine a light

Oh near. So near

But just out of sight

I went in search of alchemy to resurrect the dead

Sent my spies to fathom out the secrets in your head

They said they heard your laughter

Spinning through the summer night

In the company of strangers

And your eyes were wild and bright

Though I grew reclusive and my days became withdrawn

I held the banner of our love, now tattered and forlorn

And swore that it would one day fly above us once again

To do this, I had my reasons then

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Close. You're close

Once again, come shine a light

Oh near. So near

But just out of sight

Perhaps there are some passions that are tempered by the years

You reach accomodation, the intensity recedes

Some of this occurred to me the time I saw you last

Your face familiar in a way. Your voice out of the past

Every gamut of emotion shared from tenderness to rage

Fell away between us in the turning of that page

It seemed like only yesterday we swore that we'd be true

Two innocents believing that they knew

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