Timeless Skies - Al Stewart

While travelling 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 grey slate roofs

I watched the village moving

As the day went slowly by

In the field we lay here

Lovers' footsteps went 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 till its 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 in the darkening seas

The shifts and changes in the patterns of life

Will weather it more that 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