The Past Recedes

And then the past recedes

And I won't be involved

The effort to be free

Seems pointless from above

You're looking down at me

I'd rather stay below

Than have you staring up at me

There's nowhere I want to go

Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive

Why, to be here you've first got to die, so I gave it a try

And what do you know

Time was so long ago

And things come back, you see

To where they don't belong

And every drop of sea

Is the whole ocean

I lied to the greatest thieves about anything and everything

I'm a figure of forgotten speech, I'm out of reach

Oh I can't play it safe

But I might, just in case

I'm disguised as a reaching hand, I'm a working man

I don't understand why clock-out comes so slow every time

That's one line I stay right behind

That's one line I stay right behind