Remixed and remastered. I recorded a version of this in Manchester in the very early 70s: that tape has gone, but I don’t think the arrangement is much different, except that it has fewer harmony overlays and a Variax pretending to be a 12-string.
Deep down I know I should forget you
Get out with my ego intact
My head knows the end of the game
Is historical fact
But my heart never quite seems to make it
I can’t seem to learn to let go
It’s a one-way ticket to nowhere
But where else to go?
I took someone else to a party
In hopes of a two-way high
And stayed for a while in search
Of an alibi
Slipped out for some air and some distance
Got to thinking and wondering and then
I wasn’t surprised to get back and find
She’d gone home with somebody else
Now I lie on my bed, my mind racing
Watching dawn seeping in from the East
And the Age of the Hero is over
I can let go of that game at least
And I wait for the future to tell me
Whether angels are still to be found
And I’m trying hard not to stop hoping
That there’s still enough love to go round
Words and music by David Harley
© 1973
