Manuscript(2005 Remaster) - Al Stewart

作曲：Al Stewart

Prince louis battenberg is burning

the admiralty lights down low

Silently sifting through papers

sealed with a crown

Admiral lord fisher

is writing to churchill

calling for more dreadnoughts

The houses in hackney

are all falling down

And my grandmother sits

on the beach

in the days before the war

Young girl writing her diary

while time seems to pause

Watching the waves

as they come one by one

to die on the shore

Kissing the feet of england

Oh the lights of saint

petersburg come on as usual

Although the air seems charged

with a strangeness of late

Yet there's nothing to touch

And the tsar in his great winter palace

Has called for the foreign news

An archduke was shot down

in bosnia but nothing much

And my grandmother sits

before the mirror

In the days before the war

Smiling a secret smile

as she goes to the door

And the young man rides off

in his carriage homeward once more

And the sun sets gently on england

Ah the day we decided

to drive down to worthing

It rained and rained

Giving us only a minute

to stand by the sea

And crunching my way

through the shingles

It seemed there was

nothing changed

Though the jetty was maybe

more scarred

that I'd known it to be

And mandi and I stood

and stared at the overcast sky

Where ten years ago

we had stood

my grandfather and I

And the waves still rushed

in as they had the year

that he died

And it seemed that my lifetime

was shrunken and lost in the tide

As it rose and fell

on the side of england

Prince louis battenberg

is burning the admiralty lights