Al Stewart - Night Of The 4th Of May Lyrics
And the days they flew by
And the leaves fell from the trees
And many times you came around
And many times you slept with me
And every time that we made love
Lady of ladies
But I would always say to you
Don't ask about tomorrow
Give what you have, take what you need
Your time is only now
Don't try to tie me down to promises
I live for today, today is all there is
And freedom seems to be everything to me
On the night of the 4th of May
And a strange and growing restlessness
Had hung in the air all day
The need to try and tear down
And destroy all that we'd made
Lady of ladies
You whispered in my ear and asked me
If I fancied her
You told me that he'd phoned you
When I was in America
Daring each other just to say okay
Swap for tonight, didn't I always say
That freedom seems to be everything to me
And she came and she sat down beside me
And you found an excuse to go downstairs
And she smiled and made
The kind of conversation that you do
And later on she said
'My last train has gone
Oh I wonder if you could run me home'
And I found vou in the hallway and told you
That was all that I would do
Just run her home and it's through
Oh I thought you knew
But I must confess
I laid my head on her breast
And it seemed so hard
To pull it away
Her hand touched my hand
And her eyes were offering the rest
If it wasn't for you, oh I would have stayed
But I came back home through the morning
To find you lying awake
And I knew all at once what you'd done
And I heard myself say
"Why did you have to sleep with him
Anyone else Wouldn't have mattered
Half
As much as him"
I don't want to touch you
Somehow you feel unclean
I just wish that you
Were five hundred miles away from me
Don't talk at all, don't start to cry
Just pack up your things
Lady of ladies
And though I'd always told myself
That when our time ended
I'd walk away with no regrets
And no attempts to stay
Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way
I find I'm needing every word you say
This freedom seems to be everything to me
And you went up to Cambridge
And you stayed in your brother's room
And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon
You said "I just want to hurt myself
Oh I need you so badly now"
And you told me
"Without you there seems to be no horizon at all
Just no crack in the wall
No place lower to fall
"Hey don't leave me, don't leave me
The shapelessness of the dawn
Floods above and beneath me,
I can't go on"
And I had to walk right into the trap
And I had to say please come back
Though I felt all the while
My resistance slipping away
Why did I have to fall for you
Anyone else
Wouldn't have hurt me
Half
As much as you
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Al Stewart Night Of The 4th Of May Comments
Oh what memories!
Right now is exactly the night of the 4th of May!
Al is a genius, His lyrics and songwriting are up there with the best.
greatest un know musician ever..better writer than Paul & John
seriously ,better than john or paul ,i love al stewart ,had all his albums but he cant hold a candle to the writings of the fab four sorry
So tonight will be the night of the 4th of May, 2016. I discovered this song sometime in early 1981 when I was still in high school. It is mind-boggling just how haunting and almost terrifying the this song is. This is a masterpiece, as is most of Al's early works
Andrew Devay, and it has returned again tonight.
Not exactly subtle, is it?
I've lived this one...
I wonder how he manages to sing it -- I sure couldn't.
Dylan said something about the irony of one of his greatest songs being essentially reliving his worst heartbreak every performance, for the sake of that night's audience...
+smartalek180 I can dig it. A longterm girlfriend of some years ago and I used Al as a soundtrack. Then, the song was acted out. Trippy, yet in the intervening near 39 years the song has become a type of balm. Pretty cool.
JimboBillyBubbaBob I agree
Year of the Cat is an addictive song.....but it's not the only one. There is only one Al Stewart!
Yes, love the sax break in that, and the one in Time Passages even more, but this transitional album is probably my favourite.
True , It's a big shame
After buying Year of the cat i bought all of his earlier stuff
and found that many songs were pretty much better !
Especially The news from Spain . Orange is really wonderfull
Orange & Zero she flies are albums full of beauty
Most people only know Al Stewart by "Year of the Cat," but I think this song is better...