《Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres》歌词

[00:03:59] On a Christmas cake day one Friday in August

[00:03:59] In a book shop in Charing Cross Road

[00:03:59] I first set eyes on a girl and at once I didn't know

[00:03:59] She had eyes like a poet and hair like a rainbow

[00:03:59] Reflecting the lights that did glow

[00:03:59] And the sadness she kept in her eyes

[00:03:59] Struck my senses a blow

[00:03:59] And so as by chance at the touch of a glance

[00:03:59] We could find ourselves out in the road

[00:03:59] With no crush of time to defeat us and no place to go

[00:03:59] And I couldn't say how but the coffee bar crowd

[00:03:59] Had appeared through the silence that broke

[00:03:59] And she said Ł˘Oh my father's a judge in St Albans you know.Ł˘

[00:03:59] Oh well, then perhaps I could help you

[00:03:59] You know that St. Albans is miles away

[00:03:59] And I've got a room in Swiss Cottage in which you could stay

[00:03:59] She laughed Ł˘Oh I couldn't do that, for I've got to be up in the

[00:03:59] Morning you see.Ł˘

[00:03:59] So I rang up to find out the first morning train she could take.

[00:03:59] And so in the gloom of a candlelit room

[00:03:59] With spaghetti, two forks and plate

[00:03:59] She said Ł˘Oh I really would like to be free and escape.Ł˘

[00:03:59] Oh well if it's like that, you don't have to go back

[00:03:59] And you're perfectly welcome to stay

[00:03:59] Ł˘But I've not finished school yet.Ł˘ she said as she got into bed

[00:03:59] And so as she slept and the pure morning crept through the windows

[00:03:59] To take her away

[00:03:59] I thought you can't make people be what you want them to be

[00:03:59] I could see my self nailed to a dormitory tale of a holiday night's

[00:03:59] Escapade

[00:03:59] And just yesterday she had seemed like a woman to me

[00:03:59] And so like a child with the sleep in her eyes

[00:03:59] Where the sadness of age had once been

[00:03:59] She left on the train with a Ł˘See you againŁ˘ and a smile

[00:03:59] And I couldn't say what I had won or I lost

[00:03:59] Or even just what I had seen

[00:03:59] But when I'm alone I just think of her once in awhile.