Antarctica Lyrics - Al Stewart

Long before I ever saw 

The frost upon your face 

I was haunted by your beauty 

And it drew me to this place 

I felt the chill of mystery 

With one foot on your shore 

And then and there resolved to go 

Where no man had before 

CHORUS 

Maybe I was snowblind 

But it seemed the wind spoke true 

And I believed its stories then 

As dreamers sometimes do 

In Antarctica 

In Antarctica 

Who knows what the powers may be 

That cause a man to go 

Mindless of the dangers 

Out across the virgin snow 

Seduced by this ambition 

I easily forget 

The hopeless quest of Shackleton 

The dreamlike death of Scott 

CHORUS