Night of the 4th of May

And the days they flew by

And the leaves fell from the trees

And many times you came around

And many times you slept with me

And every time that we made love

You wrote it down in your diary

Lady of ladies

But I would always say to you

Don't ask about tomorrow

Give what you have, take what you need

Your time is only now

Don't try to tie me down to promises

I live for today, today is all there is

And freedom seems to be everything to me

I took you down to a party

On the night of the 4th of May

And a strange and growing restlessness

Had hung in the air all day

The need to try and tear down

And destroy all that we'd made

Lady of ladies

You whispered in my ear and asked me

If I fancied her

You told me that he'd phoned you

When I was in America

Daring each other just to say okay

Swop for tonight, didn't I always say

That freedom seems to be everything to me

And she came and she sat down beside me

And you found an excuse to go downstairs

And she smiled and made

The kind of conversation that you do

And later on she said

'My last train has gone

Oh I wonder if you could run me home'

And I found vou in the hallway and told you

That was all that I would do

Just run her home and it's through

Oh I thought you knewBut I must confess

I laid my head on her breast

And it seemed so hard

To pull it away

Her hand touched my hand

And her eyes were offering the rest

If it wasn't for you, oh I would have stayed

But I came back home through the morning

To find you lying awake

And I knew all at once what you'd done

And I heard myself say

"Why did you have to sleep with him

Anyone else

Wouldn't have mattered

Half

As much as him"

I don't want to touch you

Somehow you feel unclean

I just wish that you

Were five hundred miles away from me

Don't talk at all, don't start to cry

Just pack up your things

Lady of ladies

And though I'd always told myself

That when our time ended

I'd walk away with no regrets

And no attempts to stay

Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way

I find I'm needing every word you say

This freedom seems to be everything to me

And you went up to Cambridge

And you stayed in your brother's room

And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon

You said "I just want to hurt myself

Oh I need you so badly now"

And you told me

"Without you there seems to be no horizon at all

Just no crack in the wall

No place lower to fall

"Hey don't leave me, don't leave me

The shapelessness of the dawn

Floods above and beneath me,

I can't go on

And I had to walk right into the trap

And I had to say please come back

Though I felt all the while

My resistance slipping away

Why did I have to fall for you

Anyone else

Wouldn't have hurt me

Half

As much as you