Now This Has Started - Ralph McTell

It comes like a thunderbolt

Leaves you devastated

A certain look, a sudden smile

And you are captivated

Sometimes that’s the way it goes

And you are transported

Of course she has no way to know

What she has started

The first time that your eyes meet

A merest glancing

Enough to make your heart a fool

Set it to dancing

Stumbled words, you learn her name

And when from you she’s parted

Till she is yours, you’ll know no peace

Now this has started

What weakness turns a man from love

To seek possession

So deep and dark can passion grow

His heart becomes a prison

And he’s the jailer of that cell

In jealousy he guards it

Till true love flies through walls of stone

From all she started

A vacant cell, a silent shout

Echoes of freedom

An empty cage, a child’s rage

Tears and confusion

Lessons learned in lost belief

And now in grief imparted

To flourish love must fly on wings

Through all she’s started

So rare a thing, a second chance

Therein lies danger

To slip the bolts of pain and take

Gifts from this stranger

And never ask where she has been

That journey left uncharted

Love returns through unlocked doors

To what she started