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GALAHAD

Tell me when,
I really need to know,
When did it first begin?
Was it so long ago?

Was it the first time I laid eyes on you?
The first time our eyes met the feeling just grew,
Like the smile on your face, which was halfway a dare,
Lady, your eyes snare!

What did you see in me?
Some virtue I never had?
Someone that I'll never be?
Did you whisper "Galahad"?

Then visions of you and I
Riding a tall white horse
Beneath a starry sky
Follow their tangled course.

But my armour is rusty, My banner is stained
I've been tilting at windmills and losing the game
Then you suddenly come and you whisper that name
Like an almost remembered and haunting refrain:

Galahad! You whispered "Galahad,"
Did I hear you say "Galahad?"
Did you whisper that name?

From that day on
I'm caught in a fantasy
Trying to hear a song
To this day it's haunted me:

You and I 
Riding a tall white horse,
Beneath a starry sky,
Follow a tangled course.

Then, in the dreary day,
Whenever the dream is gone
I hide my thoughts away,
pretend I don't hear the song.

I try forgetting that haunting refrain,
That arpegiated and mideval strain...
Was it caused by the sight of your long pleated hair?
Or your eyes? They snare!

And while you and I
Walk down this dirty street
Beneath this soot grey sky
Suddenly our eyes meet

And I hear you say "Galahad"
See in me virtue I've never had
and it blows me away......

We pretend
Both in our separate ways,
Though we're the best of friends
Until your glance betrays

That something is wrong now, and we cannot talk,
Though we make social noises where true meanings stalk,
And your laugh, full of meaning just hangs on the air.
Lady, your eyes snare....

You and I 
Riding a tall white horse,
Beneath a starry sky,
Follow a tangled course.

On and on, we keep riding on and on
And the music plays on and on
And it's haunting and sad.....

"Galahad", I heard you whisper "Galahad"
Such virtue I've never had....
Nor wanted to have....

On and on, the music plays on and on
And this feeling goes on and on and
on and on and on.....

You and I 
Riding a tall white horse,
Beneath a starry sky,
Follow a tangled course.

We are lost
In an enchanted wood
Turned all to glass by frost.
I thought you understood.....

Yes, I've lied
Both to myself and you,
kept what I've felt inside,
Denied it was true.....

Though I still find it a hard thing to say
I cannot hide it, it won't go away,
I can't deny what I know to be true lady I........

I ......... oh ............. I....... love.........

You and I 
Riding a tall white horse,
Beneath a starry sky,
Follow a tangled course.

On and on and on and on and on
On and on and on and on and on
On and on and 
On and on and
I love you.........

                         Torre A. DeVito