🎵
[02:18.17]Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
[02:25.32]You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
[02:31.31]🎵
[02:33.05]Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
[02:40.04]Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
[02:47.33]Tired of lying in the sunshine
[02:51.20]Staying home to watch the rain
[02:54.88]And you are young and life is long
[02:58.62]And there is time to kill today
[03:03.00]And then one day you find
[03:06.62]Ten years have got behind you
[03:10.19]No one told you when to run
[03:13.96]You missed the starting gun
[03:18.95]🎵
[04:43.78]And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
[04:47.48]But it's sinking
[04:51.79]Racing around to come up behind you again
[04:57.41]🎵
[04:58.82]The sun is the same in a relative way
[05:02.03]But you're older
[05:05.95]Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
[05:13.18]Every year is getting shorter
[05:16.68]Never seem to find the time
[05:20.34]Plans that either come to naught
[05:24.04]Or half a page of scribbled lines
[05:27.90]Hanging on in quiet desperation
[05:33.03]Is the English way
[05:35.66]The time is gone, the song is over
[05:39.34]Thought I'd something more to say
[05:44.51]🎵
[06:00.10]Home, home again
[06:05.49]🎵
[06:07.67]I like to be here when I can
[06:13.07]🎵
[06:15.19]When I come home cold and tired
[06:22.66]It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
[06:30.52]Far away, across the field
[06:34.45]The tolling of the iron bell
[06:38.69]Calls the faithful to their knees
[06:42.45]To hear the softly spoken magic spells
[06:49.70]🎵