Time, you are a burden of the heaviest kind
I take just a handful to halt this demise
It's up with the rooster and down with the lights
It's all I can do to keep up this fight
Time, your waters taste of the bitterest load
I take just a little, I don't need to know
What hands are holding, what whispering tongues
Say to their lovers when I am gone
You, you've got a way of circling lines
You don't hesitate
You, you've got a way of rendering time
You don't hesitate
So tell us the story how you came to be
Tell it from the lighthouse, and save me a seat
You are the west wind with days at your back
And I am the morning to meet the night past