Peter Hammill Autumn Lyrics

Autumn Lyrics

So here we are, alone -
our children have grown up and moved away.
living
their own lives, they say...
it all seems very strange to me.

I don't
understand their ways:
our children amaze me all the time
and I often
wonder why they make me feel
so sad and suddenly old.

Now we're left
with an empty home,
from our nest all the birds have flown for foreign
skies.
We're discarded, of no further use,
though we gave our kids all
our youth and all our lives -
we really tried.

Now there's only my
wife and me;
we used to have a family - now that's gone
and only memories
linger on...
it all seems very wrong to me.

To our sorrows they were
quite deaf
and as soon as they could they left us to our tears.
We always
tried to teach what was good -
yes, we gave our kids all we could through all
the years.

So here we are at last;
the time has gone so fast and so
have my dreams.
I simply don't know what it all means,
this pointless
passage through the night,
this autumn-time, this walk upon the
water....

I wonder how long
it will be till this song
is sung by
our own sons and daughters?