Shadow Play

Album: Photo-Finish (1978)
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  • In the flinty light, it's midnight
    And stars collide.
    Shadows run, in full flight
    To run, seek and hide.
    I'm still not sure what part I play
    In this shadow play, this shadow play.

    In the half light, on this mad night
    I hear a voice in time.
    Well, I look back, see a half-smile
    Then it's gone from sight.
    Won't you tell me how I can find my way
    In this shadow play, this shadow play.

    Sounds come crashing
    And I hear laughing
    All those lights just blaze away.
    I feel a little strange inside
    A little bit of Jekyll, a little Mr. Hyde.

    Sounds come crashing
    Can I hear laughing?
    All those lights just blaze away.
    I feel a little strange inside
    A little Dr. Jekyll, a little Mr. Hyde.

    Thoughts run wild, free as a child
    Into the night.
    Across the screen a thin beam
    Of magic light.
    Things they just don't look the same
    In this shadow play, this shadow play
    Shadow play, shadow play.
    I can't run away from this shadow play Writer/s: Rory Gallagher
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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  • Dave Who from Bay City MiI LOVE watching someone Be GREAT, Rorys performance of SHADOW PLAY always leaves me smiling with tears in my eyes, I play it LOUD, GREAT backup too......…..!!!!!!
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