Charlotte Corday (alternate version)

(Al Stewart)

If you hear a step upon your stair tonight

If you see a shadow in the candlelight

It’s only your imagination leading you astray

See her for a moment then she’ll slip away

Just like Charlotte Corday

Angry words you think you mean then soon forget

You take them back, they’re gone but not forgotten yet

Give her time, she may forgive

She never will forget

Memories will come to haunt her every day

Just like Charlotte Corday

Stars in the window like a panoply

Covering everyone, river of night

Stars in the window, see them shining for anyone else

Anyone else

Stars in the window like a panoply

Covering everyone, river of night

Stars in the window, see them shining for anyone else

Anyone else

Wish you never saw those scenes of discontent

When you wake to wonder where the loving went

When you look into her eyes

You’ll find no words to say

There are just some things that she will not betray

Beg of her though you may

Through the night and the day

Your words are turning to clay

The faces turning away

Just like Charlotte Corday