Al Stewart Timeless Skies Lyrics

Timeless Skies Lyrics

While traveling northwards on a back country lane

I came on the village where first I grew

And stopped to climb up the hill once again

Looking down from the tracks to the gray slate roofs



I watched the village moving as the day went slowly by

In the fields we lay here, my very first love and I

Under timeless arcadian skies

Under timeless arcadian skies



The old canal lies sleeping under the sky

The barges are gone to a lost decade

On overgrown banks here, lovers' footsteps went by

Long before ever the roads were made



And in our turn we passed here and carved our names on trees

As the days washed by like waves of an endless sea

Under timeless arcadian skies

Under timeless arcadian skies



Time runs through your fingers

You never hold it at all till it's gone

Some fragments just linger with you

Like snow in the spring hanging on



I left the village behind in the night

To fade like a sail on the darkening seas

The shifts and changes in the patterns of life

Will weather it more than the centuries



And in another village, in a far off foreign land

The new day breaks out opening up its hand

And the sun has the moon in his eyes

As he wanders the timeless skies