Текст песни: My Outstretched Arms + перевод

I asked her to meet me outside the town hall

I had in my pocket a ring

I’d base-layered up, with the temperature being

Way below average for spring

But she’d read the timetable like I’d read her mind

And when she was late to arrive

My outstretched arms were at quarter to three

And hers were at five forty-five

Biding my time in the hope she’d defrost

I busied myself at the gym

Barbells were raised, and biceps were praised

At length I was filled with the vim

On a cottage near Thwaite a deposit was placed

Believing I’d still win her heart

To sacrifice sanity thinking such things

I must have been mad from the start

Now I’ve accepted her love lies elsewhere

I spend all my time in arcades

I saw her today outside the town hall

And I pondered how pointless these shades

For the radiance of her immortal beauty

This mortal frame can’t endure

My outstretched arms were at quarter to three

As I lay prostrate on the floor

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