Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres lyrics Lyrics

song lyrics Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres lyrics On a Christmas cake day one Friday in August In a bookshop in Charing Cross Road I first set eyes on a girl and at once I did know She had eyes like a poet and hair like a rainbow Reflecting the lights that did glow And the sadness she kept in her eyes, struck my senses a blow And so as by chance at the touch of a glance We could find ourselves out in the road With no crush of time to defeat us and no place to go And I couldn t say how, but the coffee bar crowd Had appeared through the silence that broke And she said, "Oh my father s a judge in St Albans, you know" "Oh well, then perhaps I could help you You know that St. Albans is miles away And I ve got a room in Swiss Cottage In which you could stay" She laughed, "Oh I couldn t do that For I ve got to be up in the morning you see" So I rang up to find out the first morning train she could take And so in the gloom of a candlelit room With spaghetti, two forks and a plate She said "Oh, I really would like to be free and escape" "Oh well, if it s like that, you don t have to go back And you re perfectly welcome to stay" "But I ve not finished school yet" She said as she got into bed And so as she slept and the pure morning crept Through the windows to take her away I thought you can t make people be what you want them to be I could see my self nailed to a dormitory tale Of a holiday night s escapade And just yesterday she had seemed like a woman to me And so like a child with the sleep in her eyes Where the sadness of age had once been She left on the train with a See You Again and a smile And I couldn t say what I had won or I lost Or even just what I had seen But when I m alone I just think of her once in awhile song lyrics