
Date of issue: 24.10.1990
Record label: Elektra, Nonesuch, Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
Farther On |
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 |
Still 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 were 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 till the morning has come |
Where they know they will find me |
With my maps and my faith in the distance |
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