Patrick Sky - A Girl I Once Did Own lyrics

A girl I once did own has took her things and gone Left me without word and without warning And the vision that she drew is hidden from the view Of her friends who ask me when is she returning Where she is is where she's found, in some long deserted town In the mountains where the trees are softly humming She is gone forever banned under bridges silent spans Where the river's strings can soothe her with their strumming If only I could touch and tell her of the time And the hours I have spent in endless wonder As the thoughts flow through my mind It's seldom I can find, a friend to break the spell that I am under And I find myself possessed by an empty restlessness And a voice I cannot touch, I cannot name Keeps saying to mind, you're falling way behind There's nothing here, there's nothing more to gain Now, if only I could say to that girl that went away There really is no need in my demanding So, just turn to your task, and all that I ask Is to speak when we meet and meet me standing And to live in our own time is to remain as we are The past is just a mask and nothing more Your mind is all you own, and the rest is all unknown Just a stone adrift upon a pebbled shore