Say no word
She watched as she waited
By the iron gate
Veiled in black brocade
Tom was all alone
She spoke soft but breathless,
He took the half-a-crown
And
thought how strange
Long ago, she knew
a man
Who sailed the seas
And gave her a
daughter
Through the vanished years
Fate
bestowed a lady's seat
She honoured it with grace
Hid
the past and with it me
And now, she is
everything to me
Though I was denied her tenderness
Years
spent in gloom
I cried in my room
I believed
I'd been quite deserted
But now that I find
She
gave everything to me
Until it became quite impossible
Scorn
upon scandal
Helpless to handle
She's bitterly
breaking now
Why is my dream disturbed?
Cold
cut the wind
We pitched as we tossed
From
cobblestone to track
Along the old canal
Fierce
came the frost
The stone changed to pasture
Could
anyone survive?
Has anybody seen?
Long
ago a fox found out,
They laid the captain dead at his masthead
Searching
everywhere,
Questioning the wind and trees
I
beat the empty air,
Knowing it has seen her face
And
now, I'd give everything to know
Why my flesh and blood must
suffer so
Turning and tossing
From river to
crossing
Causing great confusion
If only she
knew she was everything to me,
Alone now, somewhere, she's
imploring me
Oh, please forgive me
I've been
so thoughtless
She's bitterly breaking now
For,
she is everything to me
Though I denied her tenderness
Years
spent in gloom
I cried in my room
I believed
I'd been quite deserted
But now that I find
She
gave everything to me
Until it became quite impossible
Scorn
upon scandal
Helpless to handle
I pray we are
not too late....
Bleak rose the towers
The
rain lashed the horses
We found the gate ajar
Her
cloak lay in a heap
The captain's furled his sails
It
comes as no surprise
She's no longer here.
Lyrics written by Anthony Phillips
© EMI Music Publishing Ltd. Reproduced by permission.