Тексты песен «Strawbs»

The soft blush of evening Returns to the folded hills The sky rains magenta In praise of the shepherd's skills The lion lies down beside the lamb At peace in the holy ground. The King is returning And those that were...

This is the last resort You'll ever know The old straight track The long way back One more familiar face has gone Will you miss me I doubt it There are many more At the last resort. This is the last resort...

Row upon row Of drab colourless houses Bowing low Before high rise blocks Varicosed housewives With sweaty armpits Scrimping and scrubbing Their husbands' socks A limp polluted flag Flutters sadly in its death throes...

He came into the shop and looked me straight between the eyes And said "You know I'm Jesus", and I must have looked surprised Because he said "Please don't be hasty, no-one understands But I've got a way to prove it"...

The plain stretched out before me as far as the slate grey sky I told her I was leaving with the migrant birds to fly I said she might expect me with the coming of the spring When the birds return back home again with...

It was early in the morning And our ship was still at sea, With a lifetime far behind us we were free. We had strong hearts and a faith In our good Lord's guiding hands; The mist before us cleared, and we saw the...

I made a sideways motion Turning a new leaf The single minded miner's girl Was there to share my grief I shivered in the butter wind Three times the cockerel crowed I waited for the river But the river did not flow. An...

The heavy air was scented by The disappointed flowers The weatherman had promised them Warm soft summer showers They bowed their weary heads Resigned to wait a few more hours And we walked together in the half light...

The watchers on the hillside stand in silence As the dawn appears Then they gather to their horses in an instant As a sunshaft sears Through the morning mist which hangs low in the valleys Like a serpent's tail Both...

The boatman rose to the sound of his heartbeat Loud in the silent approach of the dawn He glanced through the window at mist on the lake Which hung like a shroud in the still of the morn The silver cobwebs spun with the...

The soldier smiling softly sings a song of sad farewell As the train pulls out to take him far from home His children waving gaily without knowing he has gone Now you know what I feel. And the thoughts that always...

Looks around with angel face She does everything with amazing grace She wears smart clothes but no-one knows She's got nobody waiting at home. She is not the only song I sing Though I sing them all for her There is...

Sadness clouds the face of Mother Nature Children dry the tears that she has shed We will light a candle in her darkness Beauty in the eyes of the beloved There will come the day When we'll be glad There will come the...

I have people to free, they're depending on me So I can't afford to die Get them safely back, then I won't stay too long I'll be leaving soon for London So I'll look this war straight in the eye Only thirty days so I...

My love is as the rose As wild and free as I should wish to be Close guarded by the thorns That shield her from the hands that seek to touch. The hourglass sand that runs so free Is rock that failed to halt the waves of...

Time is the power The enemy hour The soul survivor of the news The headlines. Life is a friend I value its end For I can take it when I choose The deadlines. Time and life Will meet at dawn The swords have...

To Be Free by Strawbs The gilt-edged invitation came And I said, "What can this mean, To attend the coronation As the first guest of the Queen, And sit upon her right hand Where the Prince is mostly seen?" The maids...

The willows stand on guard in the dark Where lovers are rowing alone in the park. In awe of each other they make a mistake, And find they must spend one more night on the lake. And I don't care if anyone knows, There's...

You talked of me with acid tongue And pointed trembling spiteful hands Your presence almost overwhelmed When Mother Nature tends her young She comforts each and every one The flower sheds its seeds and flourishes. But...

My life is never peaceful As I fly me high above For I hover like an eagle With an olive branch of love With the vision of a hunter And the conscience of a dove. Turn me round. Now the eagle holds the aces When it...