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Artist: John Martyn
Canonical path: /john-martyn/the-field-of-play
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The Field Of Play
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The Field Of Play
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The fields they redden slowly
As every player is laid low
The guns are never silenced
As every single orphan knows
Time may break your heart, your love will go on forever
Time may break your heart, your love will carry on
Time may break your heart, your love will go on forever
Time may break your heart, your love will carry on
Evening turns to darkness
Just as the cliché always says
The rain begins to fall
The mayhem, the madness, and it all
End it all right now with the last war
Time may break your heart, your love will go on forever
Time may break your heart, your love will carry on
Time may break your heart, your love will go on forever
Time may break your heart, your love will carry on
Tell me
Time can break your heart, your love will carry forward
Time will break your heart love will carry on
Time will break your heart, these wars and troubles only
These wars and time might try to break your heart but love will carry on
The fields seem so empty now, no enemies left
Your heart is sore, your mind bereft
The time you got gonna break your heart
The time you got maybe break your heart
But your love?
Time can’t break my heart
Time may break your heart, all the madness, all the mayhem flies away
You got the power of love
Time will break your heart but your own love will carry on
The love you have inside, impeccable, unstoppable
Believable, believable, it’s the love you have inside
You know yourself
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