Girl to the North Country Peter Hammill

Draw your chair up to the fire
Lay your burden down
You've come so very far
From where it all began

That doomed romance, long expired
It's all behind you now
She was once your lucky star
You went and let her down so hard

A place of safety
Is that within her reach at last?

I heard she headed for the borderline
To bury all her memories underneath the drifting snow
In the nick of time, in a trick of light you let her go

All the squandered time adrift, how'll you ever find her now?
Far out beyond the treeline, still in search of a magician
She can serve for better or for worse
She always made a beeline for the one who'd give her
Less than she deserved
In the service of the fable

Was she ever your true love of the long ago?
And did she think of you at last or would you really rather not know?