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 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 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? 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