Timeless Skies
Journey Through Arcadian Memories
Lyrics
While travelling northwards
Reflecting on a journey northwards
On a back country lane
On a rural road
I came on the village
Discovering the village of childhood
Where first I grew
Where the singer first grew up
And stopped to climb up
Stopping to climb the familiar hill
The hill once again
Revisiting a significant place
Looking down from the tracks
Observing the village from elevated tracks
To the grey slate roofs
Noting the grey slate roofs
I watched the village moving
Watching the village's daily life
As the day went slowly by
Passing time slowly
In the field we lay here
Recalling lying in a field
Lovers' footsteps went by
Noticing lovers' footsteps
In the fields we lay here
Reminiscing about the past
My very first love and I
Remembering the singer's first love
Under timeless arcadian skies
Amid idyllic, timeless skies
Under timeless arcadian skies
Repeating the imagery of eternal skies
The old canal lies
Describing an old canal under the sky
Sleeping under the sky
Noting the absence of barges
The barges are gone to a lost decade
Referencing a bygone era
On overgrown banks here
Highlighting overgrown banks
Lovers' footsteps went by
Recalling lovers' footsteps
Long before ever the roads were made
Long before roads were built
And in our turn we passed here
Passing through and leaving a mark
And carved our names on trees
Carving names on trees as a symbolic act
As the days washed by like
Days passing like waves of the sea
Waves of an endless sea
Symbolizing the passage of time
Under timeless arcadian skies
Under timeless, idyllic skies
Under timeless arcadian skies
Reiterating the timeless and serene setting
Time runs through your fingers
Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of time
You never hold till its gone
Emphasizing the fleeting quality of time
Some fragments just linger with you
Some memories linger like snow in spring
Like snow in the spring hanging on
Highlighting enduring fragments of the past
I left the village behind in the night
Leaving the village behind in darkness
To fade like a sail in the darkening seas
Fading away like a sail in the sea
The shifts and changes in the patterns of life
Life's changes are more enduring than centuries
Will weather it more that the centuries
Weathering the shifts and changes
And in another village in a far off foreign land
Shifting to another village in a foreign land
The new day breaks out opening up its hand
Welcoming a new day with hope
And the sun has the moon in his eyes
The sun symbolizes optimism and continuity
As he wanders the timeless skies
Wandering under timeless skies
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