While travelling northwards    On a back country lane    I came on the village    Where first I grew    And stopped to climb up    The hill once again    Looking down from the tracks    To the grey slate roofs       I watched the village moving    As the day went slowly by    In the field we lay here    Lovers' footsteps went by    In the fields we lay here    My very first love and I    Under timeless arcadian skies    Under timeless arcadian skies       The old canal lies    Sleeping under the sky    The barges are gone to a lost decade    On overgrown banks here    Lovers' footsteps went by    Long before ever the roads were made    And in our turn we passed here    And carved our names on trees    As the days washed by like    Waves of an endless sea    Under timeless arcadian skies    Under timeless arcadian skies       Time runs through your fingers    You never hold till its gone    Some fragments just linger with you    Like snow in the spring hanging on       I left the village behind in the night    To fade like a sail in the darkening seas    The shifts and changes in the patterns of life    Will weather it more that the centuries    And in another village in a far off foreign land    The new day breaks out opening up its hand    And the sun has the moon in his eyes    As he wanders the timeless skies