I finished writing this song in the summer
Now I'm watching the snowflakes fall
As the years go by, I wonder if I really like it here at all
Well, I woke up this morning in a strange town
The truth is I thought I'd be dead by now
I guess I'll keep on going until they find me out
With love from halcyon
I'm glad that I stayed out drinking
Put some medicine in my mind
To distract me from this grain of sand
In the middle of space and a time
This morning my head is losing the war
It's cold outside as I walk out the door
And I get the feeling this has happened before
With love from halcyon
I can feel myself disappearing in the early morning sun
I fade with the road that I'm walking
With love from halcyon
As the morning breaks over Southampton
I'm wondering how long and how far
Still thinking about that old friend, as the waitress trips over my guitar
See he stopped singing songs and he moved away
I can picture him now singing low lands away
Heard he's picking apples down near Rattlesnake Bay
With love from halcyon
I remember early evening the first time Summer showed her face
We were sat outside with a and wine
Talking about the golden days
We woke up laughing in the Paris dusk
And a man on the boat pulled a knife on us
If time is money and money ain't much
With love from halcyon
And I could feel us disappearing in the early morning sun
For we were just dead men walking
With love from halcyon
And I'll be moving on in the morning
To go searching across this land
Well, I don't know what I've been looking for yet
And I doubt that I'll ever understand
I'm a copy of a copy
In my own version of time
I'll never see yours and you'll never see mine
We still see the same sunsets
Walk the same lines
With love from halcyon
I started writing this song in the winter
Now I'm watching the spring blossoms fall
Tell me how can the difference between hours and years
Feel so endless and yet so small
Well, I left that house about four this morning
I got a feeling to carry on going
'Til the cigarettes freeze over and the whiskey stops flowing
They'll be singing low lands away
And if halcyon is the days gone by
Then they're the ones that I love
If now is the place that I'm supposed to be
It isn't long enough
Some day soon I'll be a photograph
Underneath my grandson's bed
I heard there's a universe somewhere
Where this song was written yet
So, if you feel yourself disappearing in the early morning sun
Just smile and keep on walking
With love from halcyon