The morning is humming, it's a quarter past nineI should be working down in the vinesYeah, but I'm lying here with a good friend of mineWatching the sun in her hairI pick the grapes from the hills to the seaThe fields of France are a home to meAh, but today lying here such a good place to beI can't go anywhereBut as we slip in and out of embraceLike some old and familiar placeReflecting all of my dreams in her face like beforeOn the last day of June 1934Just out of Cambridge in a narrow country laneA bottle green Bentley in the driving rainSlips and skids round a corner, pulls straight againHeads up the drive to the doorThe lights of the party shine over the fieldsWhere lovers and dancers watch Catherine WheelsAnd argue realities digging their heelsIn a world that's finished with warAnd a lost wind of summer blows into the streetsPast the tramps in the alleyways, the rich in silk sheetsEurope lies sleeping, you feel her heartbeats through the floorOn the last day of June 19On the night that Ernst Roehm diedVoices rang out in the rolling Bavarian hillsSwept through the cities and danced in the guttersGrown strong like the joining of willsOh, echoed away like a roar in the distanceIn moonlight carved out of steelSinging, All the lonely, so long and so longYou don't know how long, how I longYou can't hold me, I'm strong, now I'm strongStronger than your lawI sit here now by the banks of the RhineDipping my feet in the cold stream of timeAnd I know I'm a dreamer, I know I'm out of lineWith the people I see everywhereThe couples pass by me, they're looking so goodTheir arms 'round each other, they head for the woodsThey don't care who Ernst Roehm was, no reason they shouldJust a shadow that hangs in the airBut I thought I saw him cross over the hillWith a whole ghostly army of men at his heelAnd struck in the moment it seemed to be real like beforeOn the last day of June 1934
Lyrics by Al Stewart
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