Peter Hammill - Act 4. It's Over Now

[Montresor & Madeline]
As we walk so we tread
On the words left unsaid
I can't say them no matter how hard I try
We chatter on, then the moment's gone,
The one for which I've hoped
And I've prayed and I've planned.
Stop the clock's advance!
I need a second chance,
I need that second's glance
When my hand touched you hand.
I'd take you in my arms and say 'I love you'
But it won't come back to me.
It's over now,
It's over now,
It's over now, you see.
If I hadn't been afraid to touch you
Would you have been afraid to fall in love with me?
Would it be over?
Would it be over now?
Perhaps it wouldn't be.
And each hour limits choice
In so gentle a voice
'till the hour that we realise no choice remains.
So we await
Just one chance to cheat our fate,
But then if we hesitate
We lose the power to act at all.
For once that moment's past
We simply stand aghast
As life rolls to disaster
And we stand an watch it fall.
I'd take you in my arms and say 'I love you'
But I think we both agree.
It's over now,
It's over now, you see.
It's over now,
It's over now, you see.
If I hadn't been afraid to touch you
Would you have been afraid to fall in love with me?
Would it be over?
Would it be over now?
Perhaps it wouldn't be.
If I hadn't been afraid to touch you
Would you have been afraid to fall in love with me?
Would it be over?
Would it be over now?
The way it seems to be.