Manuscript (2007 - Remaster)-Al Stewart

[00:13.88]Prince louis battenberg is burning the admiralty lights down low [00:20.29]Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown [00:29.12]Admiral lord fisher is writing to churchill calling for more dreadnoughts [00:36.56]The houses in hackney are all falling down [00:41.28] [00:48.45]And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war [00:55.18]Young girl writing her diary while time seems to pause [01:03.87]Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore [01:12.63]Kissing the feet of england [01:27.25] [01:37.02]Oh the lights of saint petersburg come on as usual [01:41.72]Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late [01:46.87]Yet there's nothing to touch [01:52.15]And the tsar in his great winter palace [01:55.49]Has called for the foreign news [01:58.74]An archduke was shot down in bosnia but nothing much [02:04.11] [02:11.86]And my grandmother sits before the mirror [02:15.12]In the days before the war [02:18.51]Smiling a secret smile as she goes to the door [02:26.93]And the young man rides off in his carriage homeward once more [02:34.23]And the sun sets gently on england [02:48.80] [02:59.22]Ah the day we decided to drive down to worthing [03:03.76]It rained and rained [03:06.04]Giving us only a minute to stand by the sea [03:14.27]And crunching my way through the shingles [03:17.69]It seemed there was nothing changed [03:20.80]Though the jetty was maybe more scarred that I'd known it to be [03:26.37] [03:33.94]And mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky [03:40.29]Where ten years ago we had stood my grandfather and I [03:50.96]And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died [03:58.23]And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide [04:04.82]As it rose and fell on the side of england [04:21.44] [04:35.73]Prince louis battenberg is burning the admiralty lights [04:41.01]