AL STEWART

Antarctica

Original	Doubting Thomas (Alternate version 1)	Doubting Thomas (Alternate version 2)
Long before I ever saw The frost upon your face I was haunted by your beauty And it drew me to this place I felt the chill of mystery With one foot on your shore And then and there resolved to go Where no man had before Maybe I was snowblind But it seemed the wind spoke true And I believed its stories then As dreamers sometimes do In Antarctica In Antarctica Who knows what the powers may be That cause a man to go Mindless of the dangers Out across the virgin snow Seduced by this ambition I easily forgot The hopeless quest of Shackleton The dreamlike death of Scott Maybe I was snowblind Perhaps it sapped my will But something of my innocence Is wandering there still In Antarctica In Antarctica In Antarctica In Antarctica	Fly, fly away to Canada Leaving the city behind us Why why in the midnight hour going where no one will find us Tired skies (eyes?) it's a midnight flight No one is able to see us Land land and I don't know where No one is able to be us Remember the times, so long ago It was almost like making a promise The river of evening continues to fall I can tell you're still Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Who knows where and maybe who knows when Who knows whatever we're meaning Da da da... (Al scats the unwritten lyrics) Now you stare at the ceiling Bi di do do do... Remember the times, so long ago It was almost like making a promise The river of evening continues to fall I can tell you're still Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Oh... The river of evening continues to fall I can tell you'll still Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas	In the city of evening, there was no one around The streets were deserted for eons In community halls and over crumbling walls There was grass and the ghost of the neon And all the way down from the hills to the town Came the gradual march of the forest And if you were there, would you stand and you’d stare Would you see, would you be Doubting Thomas? Remember the words that you gave long ago They were almost like making a promise The river of silence continues to flow On the hill you were still Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas The carrion birds are wheeling out of the sky Somewhere away in the distance In the swell of the air you don’t hear any cries Gone are the days of resistance While it’s maybe the future and it’s maybe the past But something has fallen upon us And you feel like the first And you look like the last Would you seem, would you beDoubting Thomas Remember the words that you gave long ago They were almost like making a promise Now the river of silence continues to flow On the hill you were still Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas Doubting Thomas