The Palace Of Versailles Lyrics - Time Passages - Al Stewart

The wands of smoke are rising 

From the walls of the Bastille 

And through the streets of Paris 

Runs a sense of the unreal 

The Kings have all departed 

There servants are nowhere 

We burned out their mansions 

In the name of Robespierre 

And still we wait 

To see the day begin 

Our time is wasting in the wind 

Wondering why 

Wondering why, it echoes 

Through the lonely palace of Versailles 

Inside the midnight councils 

The lamps are burning low 

On you sit and talk all through the night 

But there's just no place to go 

And Bonaparte is coming 

With his army from the south 

Marat your days are numbered 

And we live hand to mouth 

While we wait 

To see the day begin 

Our time is wasting in the wind 

Wondering why 

Wondering why, it echoes 

Through the lonely palace of Versailles 

The ghost of revolution 

Still prowls the Paris streets 

Down all the restless centuries 

It wonders incomplete 

It speaks inside the cheap red wine 

Of cafe summer nights 

Its red and amber voices 

Call the cars at traffic lights 

Why do you wait 

To see the day begin 

Your time is wasting in the wind 

Wondering why 

Wondering why, it echoes 

Through the lonely palace of Versailles 

Wondering why, it echoes 

Through the lonely palace of Versailles