Autumn-Peter Hammill

[ti:Autumn] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:今天画海,下一天画蓝] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Autumn - Peter Hammill [00:00.38]So here we are [00:02.09] [00:03.38]Alone [00:04.81] [00:07.47]Our children have grown up and moved away [00:14.81] [00:17.13]Living their own lives [00:20.02]They say [00:21.38] [00:24.93]It all seems very strange [00:28.64]To me [00:29.51] [00:31.40]I don't understand their ways [00:34.17] [00:36.20]Our children amaze me all the time [00:43.52] [00:45.23]And I often wonder why they make me feel [00:50.21]So sad [00:52.05] [00:54.03]And suddenly old [00:56.78] [00:59.75]Now we're left with an empty home [01:02.45] [01:05.06]From our nest all the birds have flown for foreign skies [01:11.18] [01:11.84]We're discarded of no further use [01:14.24] [01:17.55]Though we gave our kids all our youth and all our live [01:23.31] [01:24.30]We really tried [01:25.27] [01:37.55]Now there's only my wife and me [01:40.28] [01:42.71]We used to have a family [01:46.29]Now that's gone [01:49.17] [01:51.15]And only memories linger on [01:55.81] [01:56.81]It all seems very wrong to me [02:02.13] [02:05.37]To our sorrow they were quite deaf [02:07.52] [02:10.19]And as soon as they could they left us to our tears [02:16.85]We always tried to teach what was good [02:19.30] [02:21.67]Yes we gave our kids all we could through all the years [02:29.52] [02:43.62]So here we are at last [02:46.58] [02:49.52]The time has gone so fast and so have my dreams [02:57.03] [02:58.60]I simply don't know what it all means [03:03.90]This pointless passage through the night [03:06.69]This autumn time this walk upon the water [03:14.98] [03:19.17]I wonder how long [03:22.89] [03:23.79]It will be till this song [03:28.50] [03:29.41]Is sung by our own sons and daughters