Al Stewart The Palace Of Versailles Lyrics

The Palace Of Versailles Lyrics

The wands of smoke are rising

From the walls of the Bastille

And through the streets of Paris

Runs a sense of the unreal



The kings have all departed

There servants are nowhere

We burned out all their mansions

In the name of Robespierre



And still we wait to see the day begin

Our time is wasting in the wind

Wondering why, wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles



Inside the midnight councils

The lamps are burning low

Oh, you sit and talk all through the night

But there's just no place to go



And Bonaparte is coming

With his army from the South

Marat your days are numbered

And we live hand to mouth



While we wait to see the day begin

Our time is wasting in the wind

Wondering why, wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles



Ghost of revolution

Still prowls the Paris streets

Down all the restless centuries

It wonders incomplete



It speaks inside the cheap red wine

Of cafe summer nights

Its red and amber voices call

The cars at traffic lights



Why do you wait to see the day begin?

Your time is wasting in the wind

Wondering why, wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles



Wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles