Al Stewart The Palace of Versailles download

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The wands of smoke are rising
From the walls of the Bastille
And through the streets of Paris
Runs a sense of the unreal

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The Kings have all departed
There servants are nowhere
We burned out their mansions
In the name of Robespierre

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And still we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

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Inside the midnight councils
The lamps are burning low
On you sit and talk all through the night
But there's just no place to go

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And Bonaparte is coming
With his army from the south
Marat your days are numbered
And we live hand to mouth

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While we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

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The ghost of revolution
Still prowls the Paris streets
Down all the restless centuries
It wonders incomplete

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It speaks inside the cheap red wine
Of cafe summer nights
Its red and amber voices
Call the cars at traffic lights

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Why do you wait
To see the day begin
Your time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

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Wondering why, it echoes