Lonely sky (video)

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1. That cold north wind they call ’La Bise‘

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is swirling round about my knees,

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trees are crying leaves into the river.

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I’m huddled in this French café, I never thought I’d see the day,

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but winter’s here and summer’s really over.

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Even the birds have packed up and gone,

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they’re flying south with their song,

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and my love, she, too, has gone, she had to fly.

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Take care, it’s such a lonely sky,

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they’ll trap your wings, my love, and hold your flight,

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they’ll build a cage and steal your only sky,

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fly away, fly to me, fly when the wind is high,

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I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky.

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2. The old cathedral lights are low, she and I’d often go there

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to admire and sometimes kneel in prayer.

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Lords and Ladies lie in stone, hand in hand from long ago,

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and though their hands are cold, they’ll love forever.

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Even the choir rehearses those songs,

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for Christmas is not long,

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and alone I sing my song, she had to fly.

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Out there, it’s such a lonely sky,

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they’ll trap your wings, my love, and hold your flight,

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they’ll build a cage and steal your only sky,

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fly away, fly to me, fly when the wind is high,

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I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky.

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+ Fly away, fly to me, and if you need my love,

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I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky.

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I’ll come in with the dawn,

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I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky,

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on the wings of the morn,

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I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky,

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above the world we’ll be flying,

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I’m sailing beside you in your lonely sky …

(orig. = capo 5th) (Chris de Burgh)