Time Passages

The Wands of smoke are rising from the walls of the Bastille And through the streets of Paris Runs a sense of the unreal The kings have all departed Their servants are nowhere We burned out all their mansions In the name of Robespierre And still we w

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All round the day was going down slow Night like a river beginning to flow I felt the beat of my mind go Drifting into time passages Years go falling in the fading light Time passages Buy me a ticket on

Living on the bottom of the sea Down metal snake corridors steely grey Engines hum for nobody but me No messages crackles through the radio leads They'll never know, never no never How strange life in dark water can be Oh mariners spare a thought whe