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Fotheringay [*] Lyrics
How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er,
And watched the daylight passing within her captive wall,
With no-one to heed her call.
The evening hour is fading within the dwindling sun,
And in a lonely moment those embers will be gone
And the last of all the young birds flown.
Her days of precious freedom, forfeited long before,
To live such fruitless years behind a guarded door,
But those days will last no more.
Tomorrow at this hour she will be far away,
Much farther than these islands,
Or the lonely Fotheringay
And watched the daylight passing within her captive wall,
With no-one to heed her call.
And in a lonely moment those embers will be gone
And the last of all the young birds flown.
To live such fruitless years behind a guarded door,
But those days will last no more.
Much farther than these islands,
Or the lonely Fotheringay
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Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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