Oh father won’t you tell me
How does a lifetime flow?
The pace and the direction
And all things I should know
I fear the blood in-side me
Is calling me to go
So tell me your long story
From springtime to the snow
Chorus:
I threw stones in the pool of time
And watched the ripples roll
Waited til they came to rest
In the harbour of my soul
And I said to myself, “That’s all there is
All there is - no more
Just the ripples of the stones in a pool of time
That die on a distant shore”
Oh mother won’t you tell me
As you walk on the lea?
Why you watch every evening
The sun embrace the sea
Smiling as a mother can
She told me tenderly
Waves of all the things undone
Come racing home to me
Chorus:
My children won’t you tell me
Those questions in your eyes
They echo in my memory
With sounds I recognise
For long before I tasted
Sad comforts in this wine
I made my own life’s shadows
Within my bowl of time
