[ti:Timeless Skies] [ar:Al Stewart] [al:Time Passages] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Timeless Skies - Al Stewart [00:12.28]While travelling northwards [00:15.67]On a back country lane [00:19.29]I came on the village [00:20.60]Where first I grew [00:26.00]And stopped to climb up [00:29.70]The hill once again [00:32.13]Looking down from the tracks [00:34.87]To the gray slate roofs [00:39.13]I watched the village moving [00:41.64]As the day went slowly by [00:44.33]In the field we lay here [00:47.23]My very first love and I [00:51.05]Under timeless Arcadian skies [00:55.74]Under timeless Arcadian skies [01:06.80]The old canal lies [01:09.78]Sleeping under the sky [01:13.71]The barges are gone to a lost decade [01:19.90]On overgrown banks here [01:23.66]Lovers' footsteps went by [01:27.49]Long before ever the roads were made [01:33.56]And in our turn we passed here [01:36.13]And carved our names on trees [01:38.88]As the days washed by like [01:41.70]Waves of an endless sea [01:45.50]Under timeless Arcadian skies [01:50.10]Under timeless Arcadian skies [02:00.39]Time runs through your fingers [02:04.36]You never hold let level till its gone [02:11.57]Some fragments just linger with you [02:15.93]Like snow in the spring hanging on [02:27.76]I left the village behind in the night [02:34.25]To fade like a sail on the darkening seas [02:41.32]The shifts and changes in the patterns of life [02:48.08]Will weather it more that the centuries [02:54.20]And in another village in a far off foreign land [02:59.52]The new day breaks out opening up its hand [03:05.92]And the sun has the moon in his eyes [03:10.49]As he wanders the timeless skies