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Judy Collins - Albatross Lyrics

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  • The lady comes to the gate dressed in lavender and leather
  • Looking North to the sea she finds the weather fine
  • She hears the steeple bells ringing through the orchard
  • All the way from town
  • She watches seagulls fly
  • Silver on the ocean stitching through the waves
  • The edges of the sky
  • Many people wander up the hills
  • From all around you
  • Making up your memories and thinking they have found you
  • They cover you with veils of wonder as if you were a bride
  • Young men holding violets are curious to know if you have cried
  • And tell you why
  • And ask you why
  • Any way you answer
  • Lace around the collars of the blouses of the ladies
  • Flowers from a Spanish friend of the family
  • The embroid'ry of your life holds you in
  • And keeps you out but you survive
  • Imprisoned in your bones
  • Behind the isinglass windows of your eyes
  • And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain
  • Down the hills through the long grass to the sea
  • And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain
  • Come away alone
  • Even now by the gate with you long hair blowing
  • And the colors of the day that lie along your arms
  • You must barter your life to make sure you are living
  • And the crowd that has come
  • You give them the colors
  • And the bells and wind and the dream
  • Will there never be a prince who rides along the sea and the mountains
  • Scattering the sand and foam into amethyst fountains
  • Riding up the hills from the beach in the long summer grass
  • Holding the sun in his hands and shattering the isinglass?
  • Day and night and day again and people come and go away forever
  • While the shining summer sea dances in the glass of your mirror
  • While you search the waves for love and your visions for a sign
  • The knot of tears around your throat is crystallizing into your design
  • And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain
  • Down the hills through the long grass to the sea
  • And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain
  • Come away alone
  • Come away alone...with me.

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