Al Stewart - Where Are They Now

Al Stewart - Where Are They Now



I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mist


When they fell on your positions you were powerless to resist


Encircling and probing for the weakness in your line


By night you were surrounded; your territory mine


I called for your surrender; this you swore you would not do


So I stormed the very fortress, you thought could shelter you


I held you then upon your knees and turned to give my thanks


To the regiments assembled in their ranks



CHORUS


Where are they now?


Where are they now?



I raised you to your feet, with your hand inside my own


We set off upon a journey, each together, each alone


In the days that followed oh our lives did overlap


I learned the contours of your body like the roads upon a map


You sweetened every evening, I savoured every day


Just when I was certain it would always be this way


You slipped beyond the reach of my outstretched fingertips


With all the kisses we'd placed upon your lips



CHORUS



Oh close. You're close


Someone, come shine a light


Oh near. So near


But just out of sight



I went in search of alchemy to resurrect the dead


Sent my spies to fathom out the secrets in your head


They said they heard your laughter


Spinning through the summer night


In the company of strangers


And your eyes were wild and bright


Though I grew reclusive and my days became withdrawn


I held the banner of our love, now tattered and forlorn


And swore that it would one day fly above us once again


To do this, I had my reasons then



CHORUS



Close. You're close


Once again, come shine a light


Oh near. So near


But just out of sight



Perhaps there are some passions that are tempered by the years


You reach accomodation, the intensity recedes


Some of this occurred to me the time I saw you last


Your face familiar in a way. Your voice out of the past


Every gamut of emotion shared from tenderness to rage


Fell away between us in the turning of that page


It seemed like only yesterday we swore that we'd be true


Two innocents believing that they knew



CHORUS