For the Ages

I love to watch you naked
as the day is breaking
Hear you speak in tongues
as our love gets made
Wisdom that you whisper
when we're in the clinches
Mantle of your silence
on the night-time raids

You got a face
for the ages, babe
You got a face
for the barricades
Roll you in my arm
as the day is breaking
Roll you in my arms
as the daylight fades

Laying here quietly
I watch you sleeping
Softest rays of daylight
curling round the shades
Hold the flag high
Ah, you know you're drawing
Every marksman's eye
in the fusillades

You got a face
for the ages, babe
You got a face
for the barricades
Roll you in my arms
as the day is breaking
Roll you in my arms
as the daylight fades

How soft and sweet
the coming of a Catalan dawn
As beautiful today
As the day the world was born
Hear the song of freedom
as the sparrow calls
I know life will go on
when Santander falls

The walls won't last 'til sunset
and, as daylight fades
they'll be taking out the last
of the renegades
Shadows will grow longer
and, as night invades
Mercury will slide
into retrograde

You got a face
for the ages, babe
You got a face
for the barricades
Hold you in my arms
as the day is breaking
Hold you in my arms
as the daylight fades