Al Stewart - The Palace Of Versailles (1978) (HQ Remastered Audio & HD 720p Video) video free download

[Lyrics]

The wands of smoke are rising

From the walls of the Bastille

And through the streets of Paris

Runs a sense of the unreal

The Kings have all departed

There servants are nowhere

We burned out their mansions

In the name of Robespierre

And still we wait

To see the day begin

Our time is wasting in the wind

Wondering why

Wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Inside the midnight councils

The lamps are burning low

On you sit and talk all through the night

But there's just no place to go

And Bonaparte is coming

With his army from the south

Marat your days are numbered

And we live hand to mouth

While we wait

To see the day begin

Our time is wasting in the wind

Wondering why

Wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles

The ghost of revolution

Still prowls the Paris streets

Down all the restless centuries

It wonders incomplete

It speaks inside the cheap red wine

Of cafe summer nights

Its red and amber voices

Call the cars at traffic lights

Why do you wait

To see the day begin

Your time is wasting in the wind

Wondering why

Wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Wondering why, it echoes

Through the lonely palace of Versailles

My 3rd video is for one of my favorite Al Stewart songs, The Palace of Versailles. This song is from his 1978 album Time Passages.

Al Stewart has written many great songs about history it was hard to choose which one I wanted to do, but it's just an incredibly beautiful place so the images were easy. Also included a couple of quick clips from 2006 film Marie Antoinette....the final scene in the carriage saying goodbye to Versailles is haunting. Great movie, btw....see if if you haven't yet.

[These videos are for fun only....no profit or sale of any type occur from this video. Thanks to all the original photographers, musicians, filmmakers, and other artists for their vision!]