The Straits of Calais
Among the red bricks
Smokestacks and slate roofs
I slept in the cathedral
And dreamed of you
"At the dinner hour
I maundered with the crows"
And stared for hours
From a bridge on the Escaut
And the girl that I needed
Needed nothing from me
Her hair in the clouds
Her feet in the sea
When she takes on the world
It all goes her way
While I'm lost on the tide
In the Straits of Calais
At la Coupole I drink for warmth
With the whores
We share a Spanish brandy
And show off our scars
I tell them of a girl so sure and so free
Who gets what she wants
But wants nothing from me
And there will be one
Who'll wake your heart from sleep
The one that you'll love
The one that you'll keep
And my voice will be lost
In the wind and the spray
As I dream from the depths
Of the Straits of Calais
Smokestacks and slate roofs
I slept in the cathedral
And dreamed of you
"At the dinner hour
I maundered with the crows"
And stared for hours
From a bridge on the Escaut
And the girl that I needed
Needed nothing from me
Her hair in the clouds
Her feet in the sea
When she takes on the world
It all goes her way
While I'm lost on the tide
In the Straits of Calais
At la Coupole I drink for warmth
With the whores
We share a Spanish brandy
And show off our scars
I tell them of a girl so sure and so free
Who gets what she wants
But wants nothing from me
And there will be one
Who'll wake your heart from sleep
The one that you'll love
The one that you'll keep
And my voice will be lost
In the wind and the spray
As I dream from the depths
Of the Straits of Calais
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Writer(s): Matt Stringer
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