Time Passages - Al Stewart

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow

All round the day was goin' down slow

Night like a river beginning to flow

I felt the beat of my mind go

Drifting into time passages

Years go falling in the fading light

Time passages

Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Well I’m not the kind to live in the past

The years run too short and the days too fast

The things you lean on, are the things that don’t last

Well it’s just now and then, my line gets cast into these

Time passages

There’s something back here that you left behind

Oh, time passages

Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn

Don’t know why you should feel

That there’s something to learn

It’s just a game that you play

Well the picture is changing, now you’re part of a crowd

They’re laughing at something, and the music’s loud

A girl comes towards you, you once used to know

You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone in these

Time passages

I know you’re in there, you’re just out of sight

Oh, time passages

Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight