Album: What We Did On Our Holidays (1968)

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• We used to say "there'd come the day, we'd all be making songs
  Or finding better words" these ideas never lasted long
  
  The way is up along the road, the air is growing thin
  Too many friends who tried, blown off this mountain with the wind
  
  Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
  When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends
  Meet on the ledge, we're gonna to meet on the ledge
  If you really mean it, it all comes around again
  
  Yet now I see, I'm all alone, but that's the only way to be
  You'll have your chance again, then you can do the work for me
  
  Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
  When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends
  Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
  If you really mean it, it all comes around again
  
  Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
  When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends
  Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge
  If you really mean it, it all comes around again Writer/s: Richard John Thompson
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Andrew Milner from UkFor me the lyrics concern reincarnation. It is as if RT had immersed himself in the Tibetan Book of the Dead prior to writing them.
• Rodrigo Gomez Ruiz from CantabriaIt's one of their first tracks I listened to back in the 80's, a few months before I had the chance to see the live with the great, not forgotten, Maart Allcock, in Bilbao, northern Spain. I don't know with any accuracy what Richard could think t when composing it, but as soon as the song reached my ears I experienced a feeling that I think many youngsters of all times could share, but especially those in the 60's-70's-80's who met over that place which was "their own place", to play music, love or simply having a good time together.
• Julie from WidnesBeautiful
• Warspite from Atlanta, Ga., UsaThe whole association with death thing is unusual. Unusual in the sense that as a 17 yr old RT never consciously meant the association. Nor do I see how the concept would pop up subconsciously in the mind of some teenager. This is, however, RT we are talking about.
• David from Nottingham, United KingdomI want this song playing at my funeral. It is very special to those of us that have watched FC for many years and go to the Cropredy festival.

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