We used to say "there'd come the day, we'd all be making songs
Or finding better words" these ideas never lasted long

The way is up along the road, the air is growing thin
Too many friends who tried, blown off this mountain with the wind

Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna to meet on the ledge
If you really mean it, it all comes around again

Yet now I see, I'm all alone, but that's the only way to be
You'll have your chance again, then you can do the work for me

Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
If you really mean it, it all comes around again

Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
If you really mean it, it all comes around again


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    "The Ledge" was a tree branch: one where Richard Thompson and his friends always met as small children. He wrote the song at age 17. Over the years? The phrase—and the song—acquired a weight the writer never knew he intended.

    After performing the song at his mother's funeral, as stipulated in her will? Richard conceded he'd been too shy. Declaring love for his bandmates, in a song they'd publicly sing again and again? To be so direct: no, that wouldn't do.

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