CONUNDRUM OF TIME    

Ralph McTell

This union is soldered by wishes and dreams. 
I feel from the strength of the floor for the seam
That copes with a passion, the whispers and tears
And fists full of doubts clenched round bottles of beer.

Shouldn't you be dancing
Shouldn't I make rhymes
There's music all around us
In this conundrum of time
But there's so many notes love
Please find a tune
Please find the harmony 
Please find it soon.

Well the bucket hits rocks at a foot of the well
But they're opening up down at the Hotel
And there at the bar there is some sort of truce
Well I think that I get lucid but you say that I get loose.

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You mimic my poem so I oafishly dance
Between chairs and tables there's the breaking of glass
As I call you a flirt, and then you call me a fake
We're both prisoners of love in this war that we make

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As we grumble back home as we tumble upstairs
The ship in distress, off the coast sends up flares.

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