The Golden Calf

Once upon a time I stalked
 The streets on raining evenings
 When the distant sea blended with the sky
 Past Coliseum's filled with brass
 On pavements carved from toasted glass
 I carried in my heart a word or two
 Your dashing horseman all gone away
 Left you the stable bill to pay
 And now the golden calf has turned to clay
 All my feelings dressed in gloves
 Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
 White and open-necked you would still play
 I'd resort to sleepwalking
 To catch the mood that fills the sails
 With harvest nets and tides don't ever bring
 But every night was Halloween
 And every friend fell in between
 And how capricious nature ruled my mind
 Your dashing horseman all gone away
 Left you the stable bill to pay
 And now the golden calf has turned to clay
 All my feelings dressed in gloves
 Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
 White and open-necked you would still play
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 Once upon a time I stalked
 The streets on raining evenings
 When the distant sea blended with the sky
 My mouth was full of cigarettes
 My head was full with long-term bets
 But you would always make me see today
 Your dashing horseman all gone away
 Left you the stable bill to pay
 And now the golden calf has turned to clay
 All my feelings dressed in gloves
 Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
 White and open-necked you would still play
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 I sound so different these days
 I barely can believe I'm Me
 If I didn't know better
 I would swear I was someone else
 Lord I can't believe, I don't believe I'm me
 But who on earth could I be?
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 Your dashing horseman all gone away
 Left you the stable bill to pay
 And now the golden calf has turned to clay
 All my feelings dressed in gloves
 Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love
 White and open-necked you would still play
 Your dashing horseman all gone away
 Left you the stable bill to pay
 And now the golden calf has turned to clay
 All my feelings dressed in gloves
 Couldn't touch your windswept harbour love