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    "Wimbledon 1992"genre: Folk
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    Credits: Richardson

    Story Behind the Song
    This is a song about probably the greatest male tennis player of modern times- Its basically a reflection of how I felt after seeing him play as a shadow of his former greatness.
    Safe to say that it could apply to a thousand sportsmen that play a few seasons too many and tarnish our admiration for them...

    Lyrics
    I saw you win on Thursday night
    for just one match in ten
    they said it was you playing
    Like your greatest days again
    They said you played so brilliantly
    your speed belied your age
    tomorrow you'll be mentioned
    on the "sporting news" front page

    They said they'd seen you cry hot tears
    on those days you would play
    as though it was your lifeblood
    not the sets that passed away
    A decade on I shed my own
    as I looked and I saw
    the sinking king who used to rule
    the court ten years before

    I'd like to think you've fooled me
    I'd like to think I was wrong
    I'd like to think the genius
    that was inside still lives on
    But lately I have seen a man
    So beaten down and raw
    that he cant pull the latch to bar
    the young men at the door

    Time is taking things away
    Some things are long gone
    But memories of victories and
    of great things still live on
    So prove to us that as you played
    You'll step down gracefully
    And still be an example
    when the time has come for me...

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