1. Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

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2. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain

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You are young and life is long and there is time to kill to day

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

3. And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,

but it's sinking

And racing around to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

4. Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

Plans 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 something more to say

5. Home, home again

I like to be here when I can

And when I come home cold and tired

Its good to warm my bones beside the fi

Far away across the field

The tolling of the iron bell

Calls the faithful to their knees

To hear the softly spoken magic spells.