The Mallard-Harvey Andrews, Graham Cooper/Harvey Andrews/Graham Cooper

[ti:The Mallard] [ar:Harvey Andrews, Graham Cooper] [al:25 Years On The Road] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mallard - Harvey Andrews/Graham Cooper [00:10.78]Written by：Harvey Andrews [00:21.57]I still remember how we played together now [00:25.49]You in the water and me on the land [00:29.97]I'd call and you'd follow me people would smile at [00:34.05]Us [00:34.40]Taking their pictures of you in my hand [00:38.52]There in the city a park we could play in [00:42.40]A pool you could swim and an island for home [00:46.80]Young ones each summer you raised to the water [00:50.73]Then stayed for the cold as they left you alone [00:55.45] [00:58.58]You were my beauty my peace and my pleasure [01:02.70]A friend I could come to as both of us [01:05.56]Aged [01:06.67]Wild and not knowing that freedom's a treasure [01:10.96]The city's a prison but you were uncaged [01:15.08]So how could they leave you to live with your [01:18.24]Freedom [01:19.09]To share time and silence with one quiet boy [01:23.38]For all things of beauty they could not believe in [01:27.42]They could not conceive so they had to destroy [01:31.84] [01:34.95]I saw them laughing and running together [01:38.66] [01:39.26]Clutching the red stones and chanting my name [01:43.32]Jeering and joking they left me for ever [01:47.42]To search for the meaning to carry the shame [01:50.79] [01:51.45]For I found you broken battered and bleeding [01:55.64]Someone found me wandering late in the night [01:59.69]And all I could ask him was how could it [02:02.78]Happen [02:03.71]And why should it happen and who could I fight [02:08.10] [02:11.04]My father came calling me angry and frightened [02:15.30]And as I cried constantly he was afraid [02:18.91] [02:19.68]Quietly telling me that I was growing [02:23.54]To live in the world as the world had been [02:26.83]Made [02:27.73]But could I believe in the love he had promised [02:31.80]The dream he had painted in which I could live [02:35.92]If somebody smashes the love that you offer [02:40.07]There's less that you show and there's less you can [02:43.71]Give [02:44.52] [02:47.54]And I still remember how we played together now [02:51.86]You in the water and me on the land [02:56.57]People would smile with us [02:58.27] [02:58.79]Always that smile let us taking their [03:01.62]Pictures of you in my hand [03:04.45]And try though I have I still can't understand