The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75199   Message #1317825
Posted By: Nick
05-Nov-04 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: So Clear (Pentangle)
Subject: Lyr Req: So Clear - missing some words
Does anyone know the words to this?

Listening to it this is what I get but there is a line that eludes me and some bits (with ????) that I am unsure about -

SO CLEAR

It was in the rainy season
Waiting for the train
Leaving in the afternoon
All on your own again
Do you really understand it
Can you tell me why it is this way
Sad lady (???) at her portmanteau (???)
With no words left to say
(???) Saving (???) that it's only something
That could happen anyway

(???) Too loose, circus rider (???)
(???) Turn on your childish grace (???)
Shine on through the long black night
Go ride the dawn again
Your eyes are stars that sweetly twinkle
(???) Aureola round your head of flame (???)
Sad story that you cannot tell
Where no-one is to blame
And anyhow it's only something
Sure to come down with the rain

Would I could hear your song so clear
The words could touch the air
And catch the moons relection
In the colour of her hair
To ease this ache of loneliness
And ?????????????????

Even now I do remember
One thing more that is not told
Just a slightly twisted crystal (???) heart (???)
To keep you from the cold
All up the coast along the highway
Nobody there will know your name
So strange how things should work out now
Yet still remain the same
And even though you know there's nothing
That can ever really change



I also didn't realise this is a traditional song arranged by Pentangle - I had always thought it was written by John Renbourn