A Man For All Seasons Lyrics - Time Passages - Al Stewart

What if you reached the age of reason 

Only to find there was no reprieve 

Would you still be a man for all seasons? 

Or would you just have to leave 

We measure our days out 

In steps of uncertainty 

Not turning to see how we've come 

And peer down the highway 

From here to eternity 

And reach out for love on the run 

While the man for all seasons 

Is lost behind the sun 

Henry Plantagenet still looks for someone 

To bring good news in his hour of doubt 

While Thomas More waits in the Tower of London 

Watching the sands running out 

And measures the hours out 

From here to oblivion 

In actions that can't be undone 

A sailor through the darkness 

He scans the meridian 

And caught by the first rays of dawn 

The man for all seasons 

Is lost beneath the storm 

And I should know by now 

I should know by now 

I hear them call it out all around 

Oh, they go 

There's nothing to believe in 

Hear them, 

Just daydreams, deceiving 

They'll just let you down 

What if you reached the age of reason 

Only to find there was no reprieve 

Would you still be a man for all seasons? 

Or would you just disbelieve? 

We measure our gains out in luck and coincidence 

Lanterns to turn back the night 

And put our defeats down to chance or experience 

And try once again for the light 

Some wait for the waters of fortune to cover them 

Some just see the tides of ill chance running over them 

Some call on Jehovah 

Some cry out to Allah 

Some wait for the boats that still row to Valhalla 

Well, you should try to accept what the fates are unfolding 

While some say they're sure where the blame should be falling 

You look round for maybe a chance of forestalling 

Bot too soon its over and done 

And the man for all seasons 

Is lost behind the sun