Egg - I Will Be Absorbed lyrics

Half of the time I spend thinking alone When I'm working out songs or just lying in the sun The magical sound that I long to express Always just out of reach of my groping hands Like the wanton muse Beckoning to me Vanishes before I can see her face How many times has a transient dawn's Beauty faded away before you understand And a woman whose smile is a lingering song Brings tears to your eyes though you don't know why Like a fragrant light Moves before your eyes A million miles away Never to return Wafting past from my childhood Hazy thoughts and sensations These must hold the key to my life I always find those indefinite things If I manage to touch them they turn into stone And the quality that kept me following them Is only a sound that I knew all the time If I ever find What I'm looking for I will be absorbed And never write again