(You Can't) Turn Back the Page

Album: The Prodigal Stranger 1991, The Symphonic Music 1995,  One Eye to the Future (2008)

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Words by
Keith Reid

The night surrounds me 
I can't turn back the hands of time 
When I look around me 
My thoughts are of the lonely kind 
Such a game of high stakes 
We gambled and then we lost 
We were fools to believe 
That we could beat the odds 

But the story always ends the same 
(You can't turn back the page) 
Trying to relive ev'ry moment as it came 
(You can't turn back the page) 
But it always ends the same 
You can't turn back the page 

The night surrounds me 
I try and get you off my mind 
But still... still it hounds me 
If I could see you one more time 
In a moment of madness 
We gambled and then we lost 
Now we live in the shadows 
And pay the cost 

And the story always ends the same 
(You can't turn back the page) 
Trying to relive ev'ry moment as it came 
(You can't turn back the page) 
But it always ends the same 
You can't turn back the page 

The judgment's been set 
The jury retired 
The court's now in recess 
The plea's been denied 

And the story always ends the same 
(You can't turn back the page) 
Trying to relive ev'ry moment as it came 
(You can't turn back the page) 
But it always ends the same 
You can't turn back the page

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