Breathe, breathe in the air
Don?t be afraid to care
Leave, but don?t leave me
Look around, choose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
Smiles you?ll give and tears you?ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
Run, rabbit, run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don?t sit down it?s time to dig another one
For long you live and high you?ll fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine,
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young, and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it?s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you?re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I?d something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It?s good to warm my bones beside the fire
And far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the fateful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell