I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mist
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When they fell on your positions you were powerless to resist
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Encircling and probing for the weakness in your line
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By night you were surrounded; your territory mine
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I called for your surrender; this you swore you would not do
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So I stormed the very fortress, you thought could shelter you
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I held you then upon your knees and turned to give my thanks
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To the regiments assembled in their ranks
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Where are they now?
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Where are they now?
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I raised you to your feet, with your hand inside my own
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We set off upon a journey, each together, each alone
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In the days that followed oh our lives did overlap
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I learned the contours of your body like the roads upon a map
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You sweetened every evening, I savoured every day
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Just when I was certain it would always be this way
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You slipped beyond the reach of my outstretched fingertips
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With all the kisses we'd placed upon your lips
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Oh close. You're close
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Someone, come shine a light
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Oh near. So near
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But just out of sight
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I went in search of alchemy to resurrect the dead
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Sent my spies to fathom out the secrets in your head
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They said they heard your laughter
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Spinning through the summer night
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In the company of strangers
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And your eyes were wild and bright
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Though I grew reclusive and my days became withdrawn
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I held the banner of our love, now tattered and forlorn
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And swore that it would one day fly above us once again
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To do this, I had my reasons then
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Close. You're close
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Once again, come shine a light
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Oh near. So near
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But just out of sight
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Perhaps there are some passions that are tempered by the years
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You reach accommodation, the intensity recedes
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Some of this occurred to me the time I saw you last
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Your face familiar in a way. Your voice out of the past
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Every gamut of emotion shared from tenderness to rage
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Fell away between us in the turning of that page
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It seemed like only yesterday we swore that we'd be true
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Two innocents believing that they knew
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Where Are They Now
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| Al Stewart |
