Farther On Lyrics - Singles - Browne Jackson

In my early years I hid my tears 

And passed my days alone 

Adrift on an ocean of loneliness 

My dreams like nets were thrown 

To catch the love that I'd heard of 

In books and films and songs 

Now there's a world of illusion and fantasy 

In the place where the real world belongs 

Now I look for the beauty in songs 

To fill my head and lead me on 

Though my dreams have come up torn and empty 

As many times as love has come and gone 

To those gentle ones my memory runs 

To the laughter we shared at the meals 

I filled their kitchens and living rooms 

With my schemes and my broken wheels 

It was never clear how far or near 

The gates to my citadel lay 

They we're cutting from stone some dreams of their own 

But they listened to mine anyway 

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say 

It could be I've lost my way 

Though I keep a watch over the distance 

Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday 

And the angels are older 

They know not to wait up for the sun 

They look over my shoulder 

At the maps and the drawings of the journey I've begun 

Now the distance leads me farther on 

Though the reasons I once had are gone 

I keep thinking I'll find what I'm looking for 

In the sand beneath the dawn 

But the angels are older 

They can see that the sun's setting fast 

They look over my shoulder 

At the vision of paradise 

Contained in the light of the past 

And they lay down behind me 

To sleep beside the road 'til the morning has come 

Where they know they will find me 

With my maps and my faith in the distance 

Moving farther on