The Hourglass

Standing alone by the edge of a river

He's traded his life for a glass full of tears

The bargain was quick for one's life is less dearer

When the sand's running out and the ending is near

The ending is near

The ending is near

The ending is

The man climbed aboard and set sail for the ocean

He put on the mast all the canvas she'd take

Then laid himself down on the deck neath the tiller

The ship was his coffin this moment his wake

Runaway reasons

Runaway seasons

Time is a treason

That I give back to you now

The wind touched the sail and the ship moved the ocean

The wind from the storm set the course she would take

From a journey to nowhere towards a soul on the ocean

From the wake of magellan to magellan's wake

Runaway reasons

Runaway seasons

Everything in it

Hours and minutes

You take tomorrow

Because it means nothing

To me

To me

To

In the dark he heard a whisper

Asking him to understand

In the desert look for water

On the ocean look for land

In the dark he heard a whisper

Asking him to understand

In the desert look for water

On the ocean look for land

And there in the waves

Was a man in his grave

That he saw in the night

'Tween the flashes of light

And he

Could not be there

And all he had prayed

Or had given away

He now found to be wrong

In the grip of the storm

And he

Could not be there

Could you keep our lives together

Safely back onto the shore

Could you grant this last illusion

Only this and nothing more

Could you keep our lives together

Safely back onto the shore

Could you grant this last illusion

Only this and nothing more

And all at once the heavens bled their fire

The anchor broke the chains they flew away

And suddenly the waves were reaching higher

And in the dark I thought I heard them say

Could you keep our lives together

Safely back onto the shore

Could you grant this last illusion

Only this and nothing more

Everything I ever had for one more tomorrow

Everything I ever had for just one more night

And if this is not to be I pray could I borrow

Just another final hour onto my life

Did you ever really want to

Did you ever really want to

Lord, tell me how it will be

Lord, tell me how it will be

Standing once more by a boat on a river

He pushes it off while he stays on the land

And seeing the hourglass now so much clearer

Which someone had refilled by hand

And somewhere that boat's now adrift on the ocean

The mast at full sail and there's no one on board

The hourglass no longer sits by the ocean

Only his footprints all alone on the shore

And soon they're no more

No more

No more