Tick-ing a-way the mom-ents that make up a dull day You frit-ter and waste the hours in an off-hand way + -Kick-ing a-round on a piece of + ground in your home town Wait-ing for some-one or some-thing to show you the way + -Tired of ly-ing in the sun-shine stay-ing home to watch the rain And 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 be-hind you No-one told you when to run you missed the start-ing gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sink-ing + -Rac-ing a-round to come up be-hind you a-gain + -The sun is the same + in a rel-a-tive way but you're old-er + -Short-er of breath and one day clos-er to death Ev-ery year is get-ting short-er nev-er seem to find the time Plans that eith-er come to naught or half a page of scrib-bled lines Hang-ing on in qui-et desp-er-a-tion + is the + eng-lish + way The time is gone the song is ov-er thought I'd some-thing more to say + -Home + home a-gain + I like to be here when I can + + -When I come home cold and tired + It's good to warm my bones be-side the fire -Far a-way a-cross the field the toll-ing of the i-ron bell Calls the faith-ful to their knees to hear the soft-ly spok-en ma-gic + spell