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robert naylor (uk) - a london dawn (1972) lyrics

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a dusty pavement tells its tale
to all who care to listen
of memories so old and cruelly torn
it says that roman soldiers passed along the appian way
but no one else will let me spoil the dawn
and though your thirty dollars now has bought our child the moon
i’m sure i see old adam still around
walking through his favourite london town

the crested river finds a newborn shore
where lonely gypsies met one restless day to live together
talking in the early london dawn
with less than fifty people who knew the worth of leisure
i’m sure that i see time hurrying on
shedding tinsel tears on london town

and in victorian days, they used to spend
towards the cause of keeping in with all their higher friends
and no one ever thought of making love
oh while through the soho backstreets
the wh0res ran thick as living blood
i’m sure leaves of light are turning grey
crumbling in the heat of a london day

but while the ravens fly in the park
there must be hope for england
at six o’clock, the all+night café sign
deep conserving life refreshment for the working man
and all i hears a seagull’s scream and cry
who’s lost the calling of his seaside home, the promised land
but i’m sure he hears the ocean in the thames
on a london dawn, the seagull is my friend

the golden leaf is trekking on and on
whirling like the neverending spiral of my mind
scattered through the breeze here is my song
leaving in the hope that someone else will find the time
before the words are lost within the stream
with no one but a seagull left to tell where i have been

a dusty pavement tells its tale
to all who care to listen

- robert naylor uk lyrics

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