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Gary Green (of Gentle Giant)
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Ticking away
The moments that make up a dull day
Frittering away
Sticking hours in an offhand way
Kicking around
On a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something
To show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have gotten behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around
To come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath
And one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to bide the time
Lines that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd have something more to say
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Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the fields
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell
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