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Where Are They Now - Al Stewart

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

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

Where are they now

Where are they now

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And my days became withdrawn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

Where are they now

Where are they now

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

Where are they now

Where are they now

Where are they now

Where are they now