On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream
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And a couple are saying good-bye through the noise and the steam
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But it's just "Brief Encounter" my mind is trying to rerun
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And I wait for the poignant finale but the dream has moved on
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And the train has turned into a ship that is sailing away
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And the platform is a beach full of shells under silvery grey
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And the girl on the beach is an English Prime Minister's daughter
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And she watches the ship disappear at the edge of the water
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And it feels like the pain in her heart will be never-ending
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And everyone feels this way in the beginning
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And she watches the ship disappear for the length of a sigh
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And the maker of rhymes on the deck who is going to die
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In the corner of some foreign field that will make him so famous
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As a light temporarily shines to illumine his pages
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Then the scene has changed once again; now it's moonlight on wire
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And the night is disturbed by a sudden volcano of fire
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And a skull in a trench gazes up open-mouthed at the moon
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And the poets are now Wilfred own and Siegfried Sassoon
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And nobody talks anymore about losing and winning
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And everyone feels that way in the beginning
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And I'm up in the air looking down at a girl on a bed
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She's lying asleep on her side with a book at her head
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And it's someone who left long ago
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Was it something I said?
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And I hope that she's reading "King Lear", but it's "Twelfth Night" instead.
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Now the girl and the beach and the train and the ship are all gone
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And the calendar up on the wall says it's ninety years on
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I go out into the yard where the newspaper waits
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There's a man on the cover we all know, defying the fates
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And he seems very sure ashe offers up his opinion
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Well everyone feels like this in the beginning
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When you feel that the pain in your heart will be unending
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Everyone feels this way in the beginning
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If you feel that the pain in your heart will be never-ending
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Well everyone feels that way in the beginning
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Somewhere In England
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| Al Stewart |
