got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere you looked There was a song and a celebration Everybody was singin' and dancin' and sharin' and havin' fun And I dreamed and
come and go unknown Each so deep and so superficial Between the forceps and the stone I looked at the granite markers Those tribute to finality, to eternity And
wild men do?" Well everything's right here in the Shadows and lights, on a Saturday night, If you're feeling a little bit crazy, In the shadows and lights
won't you hold me now? Oh, lights and shadows We're talkin' lights and shadows So won't you hold me now? Oh, lights and shadows We keep on headin' through Lights and shadows
of my guitar Amelia, it was just a false alarm The drone of flying engines Is a song so wild and blue It scrambles time and seasons If it gets through
reel to reel There's no comprehending Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes And the lips you can get And still feel so alone And still
Street's carcass Carrion and mercy, blue and silver sparkling drums Cheap guitars, eye shades and guns Aimed at the hot blood of being no one Down and
days they put him in an underdog position Cellars and chittlins' When Lester took him a wife Arm and arm went black and white and some saw red And drove
romance They've been broken in churches and schools And molded to middle class circumstance And we were rolling, rolling, Rock 'n' Rolling Downtown the dance halls and
lay down someplace shady With dreamland coming on Dreamland, dreamland Dreamland, dreamland Walter Raleigh and Chris Columbus Come marching out of the waves And claim the beach and
its shadows And it has some source of light Blindness, blindness and sight The perils of benefactors The blessings of parasites Blindness, blindness and
Downwards we operate And I go all to pieces. For just once you imitate someone who is loving, and I am scared of you. Always you come around saying
you hold me now... Oh lights and shadows We're talkin' lights and shadows So won't you hold me now... Oh lights and shadows... We keep on headin' through Lights and shadows
full of light and shadow O the joy and O the sorrow O the sorrow And yet will He bring Dark to light And yet will He bring Day from night When shadows
your eyes Let the arrow find its way and it'll find a way Lights and shadows Between my lights and shadows Lights and shadows Lights and shadows Lights and shadows
so hear my plea When I call down shadows and light, mornings and night Flow in eternal glow lighting up miles away Though dark and stilled my soul is
Translation: Chris De Burgh. Shadows And Lights.
