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Somewhere In England 1915 - Al Stewart |
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On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream |
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And a couple are saying goodbye |
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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 |
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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 |
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English Prime Minister's daughter |
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And she watches the ship |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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King Lear but it's Twelfth Night instead |
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Now the girl and the beach and |
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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 |
