Somewhere in England - Al Stewart

Somewhere In England 1915 - Al Stewart
On the platform of an old railway station I enter a dream
And a couple are saying goodbye
Through the noise and the steam
But it's just Brief Encounter my mind is trying to rerun
And I wait for the poignant
Finale but the dream has moved on
And the train has turned into a ship that is sailing away
And the platform is a beach full of shells under silvery grey
And the girl on the beach is an
English Prime Minister's daughter
And she watches the ship
Disappear at the edge of the water
And it feels like the pain in her heart will be never-ending
And everyone feels this way in the beginning
And she watches the ship disappear for the length of a sigh
And the maker of rhymes on the deck who is going to die
In the corner of some foreign field
That will make him so famous
As a light temporarily shines to illumine his pages
Then the scene has changed once again
Now it's moonlight on wire
And the night is disturbed by a sudden volcano of fire
And a skull in a trench gazes up open-mouthed at the moon
And the poets are now Wilfred own and Siegfried Sassoon
And nobody talks anymore about losing and winning
And everyone feels that way in the beginning
And I'm up in the air looking down at a girl on a bed
She's lying asleep on her side with a book at her head
And it's someone who left long ago
Was it something I said
And I hope that she's reading
King Lear but it's Twelfth Night instead
Now the girl and the beach and
The train and the ship are all gone
And the calendar up on the wall says it's ninety years on
I go out into the yard where the newspaper waits
There's a man on the cover we all know defying the fates
And he seems very sure ashe offers up his opinion
Well everyone feels like this in the beginning
When you feel that the pain in your heart will be unending
Everyone feels this way in the beginning
If you feel that the pain in your heart will be never-ending
Well everyone feels that way in the beginning