Timeless Skies Lyrics - Time Passages - Al Stewart

While travelling northwards 

On a back country lane 

I came on the village 

Where first I grew 

And stopped to climb up 

The hill once again 

Looking down from the tracks 

To the grey slate roofs 

I watched the village moving 

As the day went slowly by 

In the field we lay here 

Lovers' footsteps went by 

In the fields we lay here 

My very first love and I 

Under timeless arcadian skies 

Under timeless arcadian skies 

The old canal lies 

Sleeping under the sky 

The barges are gone to a lost decade 

On overgrown banks here 

Lovers' footsteps went by 

Long before ever the roads were made 

And in our turn we passed here 

And carved our names on trees 

As the days washed by like 

Waves of an endless sea 

Under timeless arcadian skies 

Under timeless arcadian skies 

Time runs through your fingers 

You never hold till its gone 

Some fragments just linger with you 

Like snow in the spring hanging on