Al Stewart - Time Passages

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow


All round the day was going down slow


Night like a river beginning to flow


I felt the beat of my mind go


Drifting into time passages


Years go falling in the fading light


Time passages


Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight


Well I'm not the kind to live in the past


The years run too short and the days too fast


The things you lean on are the things that don't last


Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these


Time passages


There's something back here that you left behind


Oh time passages


Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight





Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn


Don't know why you should feel


That there's something to learn


It's just a game that you play





Well the picture is changing


Now you're part of a crowd


They're laughing at something


And the music's loud


A girl comes towards you


You once used to know


You reach out your hand


But you're all alone, in these


Time passages


I know you're in there, you're just out of sight


Time passages


Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight