The Near Myths: Music
There Never Was Time
Jim - lead vocal, acoustic guitar, autoharp
Teep - lead guitar
Background vocals – Katy, Teep
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I wish, he said, the years would linger
And fly less fast to make me old
My face is a mask that time’s swift finger
Models, moulding wrinkle and fold
In sagging flesh youth fashioned true
To the ageless image, engraved on brass,
Of a young face Rome or Athens knew
(There was time for youth to pass)
Chorus
I know a journey that yet wants going
I know a song that is still to sing
I know a fallow that waits the sowing
(There never was time for everything)
Time had a long look when I was twenty
Was there anything I had not done
And yet would do? Well, there was plenty
Of daylight left in the cycling sun
The roughs of knowledge that wanted scaling
They loomed – there was time to be a sage
Time and to spare to heal all ailing
(And time enough for a man to age)
Chorus
But now the night that has no breaking
Shadows the sun gone down the west
And my heart in its damaged cage is aching
After lost years, too brief at best
Chorus (2x)