Now I'm walking on the beach I came to understand With each step I left a footprint, a fresh fossil in the sand Looking over my left shoulder, behind lay my old track And I will be my old man, Friday or whenever I came back Up ahead I saw the future, a streach of barren beach I knew that I was heading nowhere, the horizon out of reach So I turned and headed back, I was present in my past
Now and then mere twin directions, the next intersecting the last There was proof that I had been there, and proof I'd come and gone Inprinted in the sand's a time so why should I walk home Now and then I'm gonna go though then I'm not the same And future waves with araised both as if I never came