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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 something or someone to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch for rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and run to catch up with the sun but its 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 and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught 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
And when I come home cold and tired
it's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the fields, the tolling of the iron bell
calls the faithful to their knees
to hear the softly spoken magic spell