Slender Threads Lyrics - Singles - Hammill Peter

I saw your picture in the Evening Standard: 

you were wearing your battle dress. 

I really must confess 

that I shed a silent smile for you - 

it had really blown my mind, 

I wonder, are you still so kind? 

Are you still so pure? 

There are other rhymes around here somewhere, 

but I'm not sure how they fit... 

Jenny, penny for your thoughts, I wonder how you're 

thinking now; 

I hesitate to visualise: our worlds are much too 

different, 

that's a sign of the times. 

Time was when I read your cards 

and wrote the numbers in the dust; 

I can't remember what they were, but anyhow, 

I missed the cusp 

so, so long, and so, goodbye 

Do you think I'll recognise you by your hair 

or by you mind now? 

We start out together 

but the paths all divide: 

when there areno more crossroads 

I open my eyes 

and find I'm walking on alone 

through the snowy cold... 

I wonder if I'll make it through the night? 

I'm an author and an actor too; 

you're a model in the zoo... 

I'm just thinking on which side of the bars 

I'm looking through. 

If I prophesied an avalance 

would you wait and call my bluff? 

If I gave you just a little song 

would that be enough 

to save your life 

or is the knife already turning in my hand?