Fresh Fossils
When I went walking on the beach,
I came to understand.
With each step I left a footprint;
A fresh fossil in the sand.
Looking over my left shoulder,
Behind lay my own track.
And I would be my own man Friday,
or whenever I came back.
Up ahead I saw the future,
a stretch of barron beach.
I knew that I was headed nowhere,
the horizon out of reach.
So I turned and headed back,
I was present in my past.
Now and then mere twin directions,
the next intersecting the last.
There was proof that I had been there,
and proof I've come and gone.
Imprinted in the sands of time,
so why should I walk on?
Now and then identical,
though they are not the same.
And future waves will erase both,
as if I'd never came.
I came to understand.
With each step I left a footprint;
A fresh fossil in the sand.
Looking over my left shoulder,
Behind lay my own track.
And I would be my own man Friday,
or whenever I came back.
Up ahead I saw the future,
a stretch of barron beach.
I knew that I was headed nowhere,
the horizon out of reach.
So I turned and headed back,
I was present in my past.
Now and then mere twin directions,
the next intersecting the last.
There was proof that I had been there,
and proof I've come and gone.
Imprinted in the sands of time,
so why should I walk on?
Now and then identical,
though they are not the same.
And future waves will erase both,
as if I'd never came.
Credits
Writer(s): Loudon Wainwright
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.