[00:00.00]Astart ('Thin Man Ballads'-Version) - Peter Hammill
[00:19.61]Always we're too young to understand
[00:28.53]That life is neither cruel nor fair
[00:33.71]At random or well-planned
[00:39.89]So we stride along the shoreline
[00:45.32]While our footprints in the sand
[00:50.94]Are washed away and then
[00:59.98]Say"Can I begin again"
[01:08.22]But where you come from's who you've been
[01:14.71]And try as you may your debts all stay unredeemed
[01:24.07](maybe that's why they seem)
[01:27.32]When all history's as distant as your dreams
[01:36.25]You close your eyes and count to ten
[01:45.18]Say"Can I begin again"
[01:48.86]Every action every passion
[01:53.29]Every rational retraction every breath a start
[02:07.33]Always we're too young to comprehend
[02:15.94]Nobody here will ever know the whole story
[02:21.87]How it ends
[02:24.55](Our lovers and our friends )
[02:28.92]Holding them closely in the noblest of pretence -
[02:37.66]Life's just got started when
[02:47.38]You find you can't begin again
[02:53.25]Every action every passion
[02:57.18]Forms a little chain reaction every breath astart
[03:08.60]Every moment lost or stolen
[03:13.09]Forms the story base or golden: go from where we are
[03:24.63]Always we're too young to understand
[03:31.99]Every action every passion
[03:45.60]Forms a little chain reaction every breath astart