Time lyrics

Ticking away
the moments
that make up
a dull day

You fritter and waste
the hours in
an offhand way

Kicking around
on a piece of ground
in your home town

Waiting for someone
or something
to show you the way

Tired of lying
in the sunshine
staying home
to watch the rain

You are young
and life is long
and there is time
to kill today

And then one day
you'll find

Ten years have got
behind you
no-one told you
when to run

You missed the
starting gun

And you run
and you run
to catch up
with the sun
but it's sinking

Racing around
to come up
behind you again

The sun is the same
in a relative way
but you're older

Shorter of breath
one day closer
to death

Every year
is getting shorter
never seem to find
the time

Plans that either
come to nought
or half a page
of scribbled lines

Hanging on
in quiet desperation
is the English way
the time is gone

The song is over
thought I'd something
more to say

Home
home again

I like to be here
when I can

When I gothome
cold and tired

It's good to
warm my bones
beside the fire

Far away
across the field
the tolling of
the iron bell

Calls the faithful
to their knees

To hear the
softly spoken
magic bells