| [00:24.01] |
In my early years I hid my tears |
| [00:30.16] |
And passed my days alone |
| [00:36.21] |
Adrift on an ocean of loneliness |
| [00:41.81] |
My dreams like nets were thrown |
| [00:47.56] |
To catch the love that I'd heard of |
| [00:53.60] |
In books and films and songs |
| [00:58.80] |
Now there's a world of illusion and fantasy |
| [01:04.34] |
In the place where the real world belongs |
| [01:10.64] |
Still I look for the beauty in songs |
| [01:16.39] |
To fill my head and lead me on |
| [01:22.09] |
Though my dreams have come up torn and empty |
| [01:27.69] |
As many times as love has come and gone |
| [01:33.69] |
To those gentle ones my memory runs |
| [01:39.85] |
To the laughter we shared at the meals |
| [01:46.24] |
I filled their kitchens and living rooms |
| [01:51.19] |
With my schemes and my broken wheels |
| [01:56.63] |
It was never clear how far or near |
| [02:02.78] |
The gates to my citadel lay |
| [02:08.43] |
They were cutting from stone some dreams of their own |
| [02:14.32] |
But they listened to mine anyway |
| [02:19.71] |
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say |
| [02:25.69] |
It could be I've lost my way |
| [02:31.58] |
Though I keep a watch over the distance |
| [02:36.61] |
Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday |
| [02:41.70] |
And the angels are older |
| [02:49.04] |
They know not to wait up for the sun |
| [02:53.17] |
They look over my shoulder |
| [02:57.89] |
At the maps and the drawings of the journey I've begun |
| [03:52.70] |
Now the distance leads me farther on |
| [03:58.67] |
Though the reasons I once had are gone |
| [04:04.05] |
I keep thinking I'll find what I'm looking for |
| [04:10.14] |
In the sand beneath the dawn |
| [04:14.47] |
But the angels are older |
| [04:21.60] |
They can see that the sun's setting fast |
| [04:25.59] |
They look over my shoulder |
| [04:30.41] |
At the vision of paradise contained in the light of the past |
| [04:37.57] |
And they lay down behind me |
| [04:43.45] |
To sleep beside the road till the morning has come |
| [04:49.38] |
Where they know they will find me |
| [04:53.51] |
With my maps and my faith in the distance |
| [04:57.78] |
Moving farther on |
