Browne Jackson Farther On Lyrics

Farther On Lyrics

In my early years I hid my tears
And passed my days alone
Adrift on an
ocean of loneliness
My dreams like nets were thrown
To catch the love
that I'd heard of
In books and films and songs
Now there's a world of
illusion and fantasy
In the place where the real world belongs
Now I look
for the beauty in songs
To fill my head and lead me on
Though my dreams
have come up torn and empty
As many times as love has come and gone
To
those gentle ones my memory runs
To the laughter we shared at the meals
I
filled their kitchens and living rooms
With my schemes and my broken
wheels
It was never clear how far or near
The gates to my citadel
lay
They we're cutting from stone some dreams of their own
But they
listened to mine anyway
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say
It could be
I've lost my way
Though I keep a watch over the distance
Heaven's no
closer than it was yesterday
And the angels are older
They know not to
wait up for the sun
They look over my shoulder
At the maps and the
drawings of the journey I've begun
Now the distance leads me farther
on
Though the reasons I once had are gone
I keep thinking I'll find what
I'm looking for
In the sand beneath the dawn
But the angels are
older
They can see that the sun's setting fast
They look over my
shoulder
At the vision of paradise
Contained in the light of the
past
And they lay down behind me
To sleep beside the road 'til the
morning has come
Where they know they will find me
With my maps and my
faith in the distance
Moving farther on