Letra de '39 (Live In Sheffield / 2005)
Okay, you don't expect comedy from me, do you? (Yes! Yes!) Well, you won't get it Okay, um (Love you!)You know, I have to say something I get a very strange feeling about time Comin' out here and sitting amongst all of you here So... very privileged position to be here sitting where I am Um, I can hardly believe it It's... it's like you have to keep pinching yourself It was almost nineteen years ago when Queen last drew up the boards up here In Sheffield And uh, in some ways it seems like yesterday Some ways it's a very long time And I look around, I see a lot of wonderful, friendly faces Thank you all for being hereAnd the amazing thing is The amazing thing is some of you I do know And some of you guys are looking - and you kinda look familiar But actually, you know, you are probably not Or... or even just born when the... when this last happened Welcome to you all, we love ya!Which brings me to the theme of this song Which I'd like to sing for you And I'd like you to sing with me if you're up for it You wanna sing? (Yeah!)Okay, I'm just gonna tell you This song is about time as well, it's about a It's about a man who goes off in a silver spaceship To discover new lands Which he manages to do But when he comes back, he He feels like he's only a year older But to the people back on Earth, his planet is a hundred years older And uh... You wanna sing? (Yeah!) It goes like this!In the year of '39 Assembled here the volunteers In the days when lands were few And the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn The sweetest sight ever seenAnd the night followed day And the storytellers say That the score brave souls inside For a many lonely day Sailed across the milky seas Never looked back, never feared, never criedDon't you- (hear my call?) (Though you're many years away) Don't you hear me calling you? Write your letters in the sand For the day I'll take your hand In the land that our grand-children knewIn the year of '39 Came a ship in from the blue The volunteers came home that day And they bring good news Of a world so newly born Though their hearts so heavily weighFor the Earth is old and grey Little darlin' well away But my love, this cannot be Oh, so many years have gone Though I'm older than a year Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to meDon't you hear my call? Though you're many years away (Don't you hear me calling you?) Write your letters in the sand For the day I'll take your hand In the land that our grand-children knewDon't you hear my call? Though you're many years away Don't you hear me calling you? All your letters in the sand Cannot heal me like your hand For my life still ahead, God bless all of youOh, thank you