Uriah Heep

There I was on a July morning

Looking for love

With the strength of a new day dawning

And the beautiful sun

At the sound of the first bird singing

I was leaving for home

With the storm and the night behind me

And a road of my own

With the day, came the resolution

I'll be looking for you

La la laa

Battles won and victory cheers,

Were the sounds I'd heard for years?

But the woman I really loved,

Was losing me to all this blood.

I only knew I had to win,

And build a world where I was king,

But leaders come and leaders go.

And that's the truth I came to know.

Love or war I could not choose,

And so both I had to lose.

I was always the one who did the thinkin'.

It was me, I'm sorry I, who made the plans.

There was never a thought we might do somethin' between us.

And it's so clear I think I'm beginning to understand,

I was the one who had to lay it out and pay it out,

I would work all night even though,

I wanted to play out and stay out.

Now it's your turn to remember,

And it's your turn to try to understand.

Seen from the height of a thousand miles,

The earth looks the same as it did.

How is it, we can fly faster than day,

But we can't find the things we need?

Young man said the old man,

Let the youth in your heart be at rest.

We may all be dead in a year or a day,

When the Devil is put to the test,

Test, test, test?