Slender Threads(2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill

Slender Threads (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill
I saw your picture in the Evening Standard
You were wearing your battle dress
I really must confess
That I shed a silent smile for you
It had really blown my mind and
I wonder are you still so kind
Are you still so pure
There are other rhymes around here somewhere
But I'm not too sure how they fit
Jenny penny for your thoughts
I wonder how you're thinking now;
I hesitate to visualise;
Our worlds are much too different
That's a sign of the times but
Time was when I read your cards
And wrote the numbers when you in the dust;
I can't remember what they were but anyhow
I missed the cusp
So so long and so goodbye
Do you think I'd recognise you by
Your hair or by your mind now
Now we start out together
But the paths all divide;
When there are no more crossroads
I open my eyes
And find I'm walking on alone
Through the snowy cold yes and
I wonder if I'll make it through the night
I'm an author and an actor too;
You're a model in the zoo
I'm just thinking on which side of the bars
I'm looking through
If I prophesied an avalanche
Would you wait and call my bluff
If I gave you just a little song
Would that be enough
To save your life
Or is the knife already turning in my hand