Where Are They Now?

Album: Last Days of the Century (1988)
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  • I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mist
    When they fell on your positions you were powerless to resist
    Encircling and probing for the weakness in your lines
    By night you were surrounded and your territory mine

    I called for your surrender; this you swore you would not do
    So I stormed the very fortress that you thought could shelter you
    I saw you then upon your knees and turned to give my thanks
    To the regiments assembled in their ranks

    Where are they now?
    Where are they now?

    I raised you to your feet and with you hand inside my own
    We set off upon a journey, each together each alone
    And in the days that followed oh our lives did overlap
    I knew the contours of your body like the roads upon a map

    I savored every evening, and you sweetened every day
    And just when I was certain it would always be this way
    You slipped beyond the reach of my outstretched fingertips
    With all the kisses you placed upon your lips

    Where are they now?
    Where are they now?

    I'm sure, You're close
    Hey, come shine a light
    Here, somewhere near
    Maybe just out of sight

    I went in search of alchemy to resurrect the dead
    And sent my spies to fathom out the secrets in your head
    They said they heard your laughter
    Ringing through the summer night

    In the company of strangers
    And your eyes were wild and bright
    And though I grew reclusive and my days became withdrawn
    I held the banner of our love, now tattered and forlorn

    And thought that it would one day fly above us once again
    To do this, I had my reasons then
    Where are they now?
    Where are they now?

    I'm sure, you must be close
    Once again, bring the light
    Here, very near
    Oh you're just out of sight

    Perhaps there are some passions that are tempered by the years
    You reach accommodation, the intensity recedes
    Some of that occurred to me the time I saw you last
    Your face familiar in a way, your voice out of the past

    Every gamut of emotion shared from tenderness to rage
    Fell away between us in the turning of that page
    It seems like only yesterday we swore that we'd be true
    Two innocents believing that they knew

    Where are they now?
    Where are they now?
    Where are they now?
    Where are they now? Writer/s: DAVID BROCK, IAN STEWART
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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