Al Stewart - Where Are They Now       I sent my crack divisions through the early morning mist   When they fell on your positions you were powerless to resist   Encircling and probing for the weakness in your line   By night you were surrounded; your territory mine   I called for your surrender; this you swore you would not do   So I stormed the very fortress, you thought could shelter you   I held you then upon your knees and turned to give my thanks   To the regiments assembled in their ranks      CHORUS   Where are they now?   Where are they now?      I raised you to your feet, with your hand inside my own   We set off upon a journey, each together, each alone   In the days that followed oh our lives did overlap   I learned the contours of your body like the roads upon a map   You sweetened every evening, I savoured every day   Just when I was certain it would always be this way   You slipped beyond the reach of my outstretched fingertips   With all the kisses we'd placed upon your lips      CHORUS      Oh close. You're close   Someone, come shine a light   Oh near. So near   But just out of sight      I went in search of alchemy to resurrect the dead   Sent my spies to fathom out the secrets in your head   They said they heard your laughter   Spinning through the summer night   In the company of strangers   And your eyes were wild and bright   Though I grew reclusive and my days became withdrawn   I held the banner of our love, now tattered and forlorn   And swore that it would one day fly above us once again   To do this, I had my reasons then      CHORUS      Close. You're close   Once again, come shine a light   Oh near. So near   But just out of sight      Perhaps there are some passions that are tempered by the years   You reach accomodation, the intensity recedes   Some of this occurred to me the time I saw you last   Your face familiar in a way. Your voice out of the past   Every gamut of emotion shared from tenderness to rage   Fell away between us in the turning of that page   It seemed like only yesterday we swore that we'd be true   Two innocents believing that they knew      CHORUS