(A Belated) Invite To Eternity-Stornoway

[ti:(A Belated) Invite To Eternity] [ar:Stornoway] [al:Tales from Terra Firma] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00](A Belated) Invite To Eternity - Stornoway [00:33.95]It was late last night [00:37.45]And all the band were sleeping [00:40.52]It was late last night [00:46.83]I was listening to [00:50.08]To the generators humming [00:53.30]To the tent-zipping drunk [00:56.61]Quipping guy-rope tripping [00:58.55] [01:12.97]And in the gathering dew [01:16.41]I was lucid as a floodlight [01:19.40]I was thinking of you [01:25.43]But now I'm back here before you [01:29.12]You can see me shaking [01:31.94]Cos in that moment I knew [01:35.87]I just knew I just knew I just knew [01:51.53]Forty seasons have flown [01:55.15]Since I first sat down beside you [01:58.45]In a crowd on our own [02:04.40]And how one person could thrill me [02:08.02]Occupy me and fulfill me [02:11.21]I could never have known [02:14.62]I could never have known [02:17.33]How in the first of our autumns [02:21.07]We'd be falling so steeply [02:24.70]We could share so completely [02:30.06]How in the third of our summers [02:33.86]When you first tried to leave me [02:37.04]You could cut me so deeply [02:40.58]I could never have known [02:43.95] [02:55.29]And on my wilderness journeys [02:57.65]With your compass still in me [03:01.01]All the shelters were empty [03:04.69]Through the longest of winters [03:08.12]When I called you downriver [03:11.40]But you gave me no answer [03:15.11]And I feared for my mind [03:17.61]Until the first signs of springtime [03:24.81]You were sick and I saw you [03:26.00]And how much you'd missed me [03:31.52]Now in our eleventh autumn [03:32.58]You are blonde from the summer [03:35.22]And I'm back here before you [03:39.72]And you see me shaking [03:40.05] [04:04.40]Will you go with me my love [04:07.26]From here together [04:10.77]From this quiet rented house [04:18.60]Will you go with me my love [04:23.07]To face together [04:25.13]Every rise and every slow decline [04:35.27]Will you go with me [04:40.84]Through dream and fantasy [04:50.55]Through the open fields [04:56.68]And tangled valleys [05:04.68]Will you go with me [05:13.67]Through grief and ecstasy [05:16.48]And every shade between [05:27.21]The cold morning stars [05:34.67]And the deep blue sea