Slender Threads

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?