The Circle Game

Yesterday a child came out to wonder

Caught a dragonfly inside a jar

Fearful when the sky was full of thunder

And tearful at the falling of a star

Chorus

And the seasons they go round and round

The painted ponies go up and down

We´re captive on the carousel of time

We can´t return we can only look behind

From were we came

And go round and round and round in the circle game

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

He skated over ten clear frozen streams

Words like"when you´re older" must appease him

And promises of someday make his dreams

Ch

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now

Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town

And they tell him "take your time it won´t be long now"

Until you drag your feet just to slow the circles down

Ch

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

There´ll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty

Before the last revolving year is through