Palace Of Versailles

Album: Time Passages (1978)
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  • The wands of smoke are rising
    From the walls of the Bastille
    Through the streets of Paris
    Runs a sense of the unreal

    The Kings have all departed
    Their servants are nowhere
    We burned out their mansions
    In the name of Robespierre

    Oh, we wait to see the day begin
    Our time is wasting in the wind
    Wondering why
    Wondering why, it echoes
    Through the lonely palace of Versailles

    Inside the midnight councils
    The lamps are burning low
    Oh, you sit and talk all through the night
    There's just no place to go

    Bonaparte is coming
    With his army from the south
    Marat, your days are numbered
    And we live hand to mouth

    While we wait to see the day begin
    Our time is wasting in the wind
    Wondering why
    Wondering why, it echoes
    Through the lonely palace of Versailles

    The ghost of revolution
    Still prowls the Paris streets
    Down all the restless centuries
    It purpose, incomplete

    Speaks inside the cheap red wine
    Of cafe summer nights
    It's red and amber voices
    Call the cars at traffic lights

    Why do you wait to see the day begin
    Our time is wasting in the wind
    Wondering why
    Wondering why, it echoes
    Through the lonely palace of Versailles

    Wondering why, it echoes
    Through the lonely palace of Versailles

    Wondering why, it echoes
    Through the lonely palace of Versailles Writer/s: Al Stewart
    Publisher: Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Pugchuck from California, UsaBeautiful song. Based on melody by William Byrd Earl of Salisbury. Not sure what the previous comment intended but regardless a great song.
  • Eisso from Groningen, Netherlands16th century music is'nt the same as folkmusic!
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