I love to watch you naked

as the day is breaking,

hear you speak in tongues

as our love gets made;

wisdom that you whisper

when we’re in the clinches,

mantle of your silence

on the night-time raids.

 

You got a face

for the ages, babe.

You got a face

for the barricades.

 

Roll you in my arms

as the day is breaking,

roll you in my arms

as the daylight fades.

 

Laying here quietly,

I watch you sleeping,

softest rays of daylight

curling round the shades.

Hold the flag high.

Ah, you know you’re drawing

every marksman’s eye

in the fusillades.

 

You got a face

for the ages, babe.

You got a face

for the barricades.

Roll you in my arms

as the day is breaking,

roll you in my arms

as the daylight fades.

 

How soft and sweet

the coming of a Catalan dawn;

as beautiful today

as the day the world was born.

Hear the song of freedom

as the sparrow calls.

I know life will go on

when Santander falls.

 

The walls won’t last ’til sunset

and, as daylight fades,

they’ll be taking out the last

of the renegades.

Shadows will grow longer

and, as night invades,

Mercury will slide

into retrograde.

 

You got a face

for the ages, babe,

You got a face

for the barricades.

Hold you in my arms

as the day is breaking,

hold you in my arms

as the daylight fades

 

© 2017 Echotongue Music

For The Ages

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