Lyrics - Slender Threads by Hammill Peter

I saw your picture in the
Evening
Standard:you were wearing your battle dress.
I really must confessthat
I shed a silent smile for you -it had really blown my mind,
I wonder, are you still so kind?
Are you still so pure?
There are other rhymes around here somewhere,but
I'm not sure how they fit...
Jenny, penny for your thoughts,
I wonder how you'rethinking now;
I hesitate to visualise: our worlds are much toodifferent,that's a sign of the times.
Time was when
I read your cardsand wrote the numbers in the dust;
I can't remember what they were, but anyhow,
I missed the cuspso, so long, and so, goodbye
Do you think
I'll recognise you by your hairor by you mind now?
We start out togetherbut the paths all divide:when there areno more crossroads
I open my eyesand find
I'm walking on alonethrough the snowy cold...
I wonder if
I'll make it through the night?
I'm an author and an actor too;you're a model in the zoo...
I'm just thinking on which side of the bars
I'm looking through.
If
I prophesied an avalancewould you wait and call my bluff?
If
I gave you just a little songwould that be enoughto save your lifeor is the knife already turning in my hand?

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