Night of the 4th of May - Al Stewart

[00:16.8]And the days they flew by
[00:19.68]And the leaves fell from the trees
[00:24.09]And many times you came around
[00:27.15]And many times you slept with me
[00:31.95]And every time that we made love
[00:34.86]You wrote it down in your diary
[00:38.52]Lady of ladies
[00:43.26]But I would always say to you
[00:47.1]Don't ask about tomorrow
[00:51.09]Give what you have, take what you need
[00:55.05]Your time is only now
[00:59.43]Don't try to tie me down to promises
[01:02.85]I live for today, today is all there is
[01:06.78]And freedom seems to be everything to me
[01:23.34]I took you down to a party
[01:26.16]On the night of the 4th of May
[01:30.51]And a strange and growing restlessness
[01:33.869995]Had hung in the air all day
[01:38.19]The need to try and tear down
[01:41.22]And destroy all that we'd made
[01:44.729996]Lady of ladies
[01:49.83]You whispered in my ear and asked me
[01:53.46]If I fancied her
[01:57.509995]You told me that he'd phoned you
[02:00.24]When I was in America
[02:05.34]Daring each other just to say okay
[02:09.09]Swap for tonight, didn't I always say
[02:12.39]That freedom seems to be everything to me
[02:20.31]And she came and she sat down beside me
[02:24.18]And you found an excuse to go downstairs
[02:28.05]And she smiled and made
[02:30.09]The kind of conversation that you do
[02:36.39]And later on she said
[02:37.86]'My last train has gone
[02:39.66]Oh I wonder if you could run me home'
[02:43.56]And I found vou in the hallway and told you
[02:46.35]That was all that I would do
[02:49.77]Just run her home and it's through
[02:53.76]Oh I thought you knew
[03:00.18]But I must confess
[03:03.39]I laid my head on her breast
[03:07.8]And it seemed so hard
[03:09.81]To pull it away
[03:15.51]Her hand touched my hand
[03:18.36]And her eyes were offering the rest
[03:23.07]If it wasn't for you, oh I would have stayed
[03:30.03]But I came back home through the morning
[03:33.99]To find you lying awake
[03:37.8]And I knew all at once what you'd done
[03:40.68]And I heard myself say
[03:45.99]"Why did you have to sleep with him
[03:48.15]Anyone else Wouldn't have mattered
[03:50.88]Half
[03:51.57]As much as him"
[04:06.63]I don't want to touch you
[04:09.63]Somehow you feel unclean
[04:13.95]I just wish that you
[04:15.84]Were five hundred miles away from me
[04:21.18]Don't talk at all, don't start to cry
[04:25.41]Just pack up your things
[04:27.69]Lady of ladies
[04:32.37]And though I'd always told myself
[04:36.21]That when our time ended
[04:40.11]I'd walk away with no regrets
[04:43.83002]And no attempts to stay
[04:48.27]Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way
[04:52.14]I find I'm needing every word you say
[04:55.32]This freedom seems to be everything to me
[05:04.29]And you went up to Cambridge
[05:07.02]And you stayed in your brother's room
[05:10.92]And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon
[05:19.05]You said "I just want to hurt myself
[05:22.41]Oh I need you so badly now"
[05:25.17]And you told me
[05:27.42]"Without you there seems to be no horizon at all
[05:32.34]Just no crack in the wall
[05:36.15]No place lower to fall
[05:41.61]"Hey don't leave me, don't leave me
[05:46.23]The shapelessness of the dawn
[05:49.2]Floods above and beneath me,
[05:52.5]I can't go on"
[05:56.7]And I had to walk right into the trap
[06:00.51]And I had to say please come back
[06:04.35]Though I felt all the while
[06:06.03]My resistance slipping away
[06:12.39]Why did I have to fall for you
[06:14.76]Anyone else
[06:15.96]Wouldn't have hurt me
[06:17.4]Half
[06:18.03]As much as you