[00:01.10]Somewhere In England 1915 - Al Stewart
[00:09.47]On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream
[00:18.60]And a couple are saying goodbye
[00:22.03]Through the noise and the steam
[00:27.66]But it's just Brief Encounter my mind is trying to rerun
[00:37.07]And I wait for the poignant
[00:39.35]Finale but the dream has moved on
[00:46.19]And the train has turned into a ship that is sailing away
[00:55.38]And the platform is a beach full of shells under silvery grey
[01:04.64]And the girl on the beach is an
[01:07.24]English Prime Minister's daughter
[01:13.95]And she watches the ship
[01:16.06]Disappear at the edge of the water
[01:23.26]And it feels like the pain in her heart will be never-ending
[01:32.30]And everyone feels this way in the beginning
[01:46.26]And she watches the ship disappear for the length of a sigh
[01:55.44]And the maker of rhymes on the deck who is going to die
[02:04.76]In the corner of some foreign field
[02:07.96]That will make him so famous
[02:13.91]As a light temporarily shines to illumine his pages
[02:23.18]Then the scene has changed once again
[02:26.62]Now it's moonlight on wire
[02:32.33]And the night is disturbed by a sudden volcano of fire
[02:41.61]And a skull in a trench gazes up open-mouthed at the moon
[02:50.90]And the poets are now Wilfred own and Siegfried Sassoon
[03:00.24]And nobody talks anymore about losing and winning
[03:09.26]And everyone feels that way in the beginning
[03:18.64]And I'm up in the air looking down at a girl on a bed
[03:27.72]She's lying asleep on her side with a book at her head
[03:37.11]And it's someone who left long ago
[03:40.43]Was it something I said
[03:46.24]And I hope that she's reading
[03:48.11]King Lear but it's Twelfth Night instead
[03:55.54]Now the girl and the beach and
[03:57.89]The train and the ship are all gone
[04:04.63]And the calendar up on the wall says it's ninety years on
[04:13.92]I go out into the yard where the newspaper waits
[04:23.15]There's a man on the cover we all know  defying the fates
[04:32.46]And he seems very sure ashe offers up his opinion
[04:41.52]Well everyone feels like this in the beginning
[04:50.81]When you feel that the pain in your heart will be unending
[05:00.04]Everyone feels this way in the beginning
[06:23.12]If you feel that the pain in your heart will be never-ending
[06:32.49]Well everyone feels that way in the beginning