It's time you walked away and set me free
I must move away, 'n' leave you be
Time has been good to us my friend,
Wait, and see how it will end
We come and go as we please
We come and go as we please (that's how it has to be)

Here in crystal chandelier, I'm home
Too many days, I've left unstoned
If you don't mind happiness
Purple-pleasure fields in the sun
Ah, don't you know I'm runnin' home
Don't you know I'm runnin' home (to a place to you unknown? )

I take great peace in your sitting there
Searching for myself, I find a place there
I see the people of the world
Where they are and what they could be
I can but dance behind your smile
I can but dance behind your smile (you were the world to me for a while)


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    Good comments all, mostly.

    And why do we never, ever hear this on the radio, as opposed to the oversaturation of "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit", played unto death? DCBA is a far greater tune, more substance and subtlety. Guess "They" never recognized it, more's the pity. And another reason why Itunes blows in a major way; the hits you may buy as singles might never reach the heights of the unrecognised tunes one would get from the whole album.

    palealienon February 06, 2012   Link

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