[ti:The Changing Lights]
[ar:Stacey Kent]
[al:The Changing Lights]
[00:28.76]Were we leaving Rio
[00:31.18]Or were we in New York?
[00:34.54]I remember bossa nova on the breeze
[00:42.13]We were in the back seat
[00:44.37]Of a cab we couldn't afford
[00:47.79]You were holding my old rucksack on your knees
[00:54.69]You leaned towards your window
[00:57.68]To see the traffic up ahead
[01:01.72]"These commuters here," you said
[01:04.77]"Could be the walking dead."
[01:11.86]And we vowed to guard our dreams
[01:14.52]From all the storms that lay ahead
[01:18.13]From the winds of fear and age and compromise
[01:24.85]And we laughed about the hopelessness
[01:28.21]Of so many peoples lives
[01:31.50]As we slowly moved towards the changing lights.
[01:52.82]It was near Les Invalides
[01:55.13]Or perhaps Trafalgar Square
[01:58.36]It was late at night the city was asleep.
[02:05.95]You were clowning in the back seat
[02:08.50]With some friends we'd found somewhere
[02:11.98]The kind, back then, we always seemed to meet.
[02:18.89]There were those in this great world you said
[02:21.94]Just fated to go far
[02:25.79]And among the lucky ones
[02:29.40]Were we inside that car.
[02:35.43]And your friends began to sing
[02:38.61]When You Wish Upon A Star
[02:42.21]And you clapped along like you didn't have a care
[02:48.93]But once I turned to glance at you
[02:52.29]As we drove across the square
[02:55.77]And your face looked haunted in the changing lights.
[03:50.55]Was it last September?
[03:52.91]It was autumn more or less
[03:56.27]You were waiting to cross some busy boulevard
[04:03.73]Talking on your phone
[04:06.28]To your family I guess
[04:09.83]Your briefcase tucked up high beneath your arm
[04:16.42]As I approached you turned around
[04:19.97]A question in your eye
[04:23.39]As though I might ignore you
[04:26.50]And just simply walk on by
[04:36.76]But we smiled and talked a while
[04:40.25]About each others lives
[04:43.48]And once or twice I caught a wistful note
[04:50.01]Then you moved towards the crossing
[04:53.37]As the cars slowed to a halt
[04:58.72]And we waved and parted beneath the changing lights.
[05:28.60]And we waved and parted beneath the changing lights.