Rumours Of War Lyrics - Original Album Series, Vol. 2 - Al Stewart

We met on the beach amid rumours of war 

Your head in your hand, what you saw you won't say 

As the newspapers blew in the wind 

I can see you're one of that kind 

Who carry round a time bomb in their mind, no one knows 

When you'll slip the pin 

Rumours of war 

Rumours of war 

I see that your dress is torn at the edge 

You were lost, intense, like a man on a ledge, waiting to jump 

As the waves break over the shore 

You say there's a storm that can't be delayed 

And lately it seems to be comin' this way, you can hear it break 

Like the slam of a door 

Rumours of war 

Rumours of war 

You tell me, just look all around 

At the past and the present, the cross and the crescent, 

The signs and the planets are lining up like before 

There are souls on fire in the day and the night 

On the left and the right, in the black and the white 

You can see it burn in the eyes of the rich and the poor 

Rumours of war 

Rumours of war 

Rumours of war 

Rumours of war