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Celtic Lyrics Corner > Artists & Groups > Mary Black > No Frontiers > The Shadow
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Lyrics:
It's over now, the guns have flowed
The nightmare flashed on a cradle road
As the guilty rain came down
No child to hold through anxious fears
No gentle hand to catch the tears
That soak this ancient ground
The smile that breaks so gently belies a troubled head
Like the voice that holds the secrets of a life you might have led
Eyes with pale indifference in danger and in grace
But the glance that knows the death-knell left its shadow on your face
In the deep, enduring darkness as your loyal friends go down
Touched by the violent crown 'til their hunter's hunted down
The web is slowly woven, the endless dreamer shed
In the dawn, the curfew is broken on the Sunday morning's dead
Centuries of thunder take the castle in the flood
To the cold night air of London where your hands are bound in blood
Midwinter deepened as the parting turned inside
A thousand times you cried, but the shadow never died
And it's over now, the guns have flowed
The nightmare flashed on a cradle road
As the guilty rain came down
No child to hold through anxious fears
No gentle hand, no graceful years
Just bitter ancient ground
It's over now
