歌词
歌曲名 Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres (2007 Remaster)
歌手名 Al Stewart
作曲:Al Stewart
On a Christmas cake day one Friday in August
In a book shop in Charing Cross Road
I first set eyes on a girl and at once I didn't know
She had eyes like a poet and hair like a rainbow
Reflecting the lights that did glow
And the sadness she kept in her eyes
Struck my senses a blow
And so as by chance at the touch of a glance
We could find ourselves out in the road
With no crush of time to defeat us and no place to go
And I couldn't say how but the coffee bar crowd
Had appeared through the silence that broke
And she said oh my father's a judge in St Albans you know
Oh well then perhaps I could help you
You know that St Albans is miles away
And I've got a room in
Swiss Cottage in which you could stay
She laughed oh I couldn't do that for
I've got to be up in the
Morning you see
So I rang up to find out
the first morning train she could take
And so in the gloom of a candlelit room
With spaghetti two forks and plate
She said oh I really would like to be free and escape
Oh well if it's like that you don't have to go back
And you're perfectly welcome to stay
but I've not finished school yet
she said as she got into bed
And so as she slept and the pure
morning crept through the windows
To take her away
I thought you can't make people
be what you want them to be
I could see my self nailed to
a dormitory tale of a holiday night's
Escapade
And just yesterday
she had seemed like a woman to me
And so like a child with the sleep in her eyes
Where the sadness of age had once been
She left on the train
with a see you again and a smile
And I couldn't say what I had won or I lost
Or even just what I had seen
But when I'm alone
I just think of her once in awhile
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