Now This Has Started
Ralph McTell
album: Red Sky (2000) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8SMsxeXrs [Intro] [Verse 1] It comes like a thunderbolt Leaves you devastated A certain look a sudden smile And you are captivated. Sometimes that’s the way it goes And you are transported Of course she has no way to know What she has started. [Interlude] [Verse 2] The first time that your eyes meet A merest glancing Enough to make your heart a fool Set it to dancing. Stumbled words you learn her name And when from you she’s parted Till she is yours you’ll know no peace Now this has started. [Interlude] [Verse 3] What weakness turns a man from love To seek possession So deep and dark can passion grow His heart becomes a prison And he the jailer of that cell In jealou-sy he guards it Till true love flies through walls of stone From all she started. [Interlude] [Verse 4] A vacant cell a silent shout Echoes of freedom An empty cage a child’s rage Tears and confusion Lessons learned in lost be-lief Are now in grief imparted To flourish love must fly on wings Through all she’s started [Interlude] [Verse 5] So rare a thing a second chance There-in lies danger To slip the bolts of pain and take Gifts from this stranger And never ask where she has been That journey left uncharted Love returns through unlocked doors To what she started. [Outro]