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Man for All Seasons
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Al Stewart
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What if you reached the age of reason
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Only to find there was no reprieve
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Would you still be a man for all seasons?
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Or would you just have to leave
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We measure our days out
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In steps of uncertainty
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Not turning to see how we've come
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And peer down the highway
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From here to eternity
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And reach out for love on the run
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While the man for all seasons
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Is lost behind the sun
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Henry Plantagenet still looks for someone
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To bring good news in his hour of doubt
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While Thomas More waits in the Tower of London
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Watching the sands running out
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And measures the hours out
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From here to oblivion
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In actions that can't be undone
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A sailor through the darkness
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He scans the meridian
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And caught by the first rays of dawn
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The man for all seasons
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Is lost beneath the storm
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And I should know by now
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I should know by now
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I hear them call it out all around
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Oh, they go
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There's nothing to believe in
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Hear them,
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Just daydreams, deceiving
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They'll just let you down
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What if you reached the age of reason
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Only to find there was no reprieve
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Would you still be a man for all seasons?
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Or would you just disbelieve?
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We measure our gains out in luck and coincidence
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Lanterns to turn back the night
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And put our defeats down to chance or experience
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And try once again for the light
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Some wait for the waters of fortune to cover them
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Some just see the tides of ill chance running over them
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Some call on Jehovah
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Some cry out to Allah
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Some wait for the boats that still row to Valhallah
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Well, you should try to accept what the fates are unfolding
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While some say they're sure where the blame should be falling
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You look round for maybe a chance of forestalling
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Bot too soon its over and done
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And the man for all seasons
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Is lost behind the sun
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