A Better Time ('Thin Man Ballads'-Version)-Peter Hammill

[ti:A Better Time ('Thin Man Balla] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Thin Man Sings Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Better Time ('Thin Man Ballads'-Version) - Peter Hammill [00:19.01]As surely as the countdown begins our time is not our own [00:30.74] [00:33.23]Already there's the breath of the wind which bleaches bare the bones [00:44.28] [00:47.02]Of the deadlines we set of the jokes we don't get [00:53.83]And forgetfulness that furrows the brow [00:58.45] [01:00.94]No I'll never find a better time [01:07.24] [01:08.18]To be alive than now [01:12.80] [01:19.03]So I wake up to remainder the dream [01:25.59] [01:26.65]Of personality and posture and face [01:31.77] [01:33.39]For nothing can remain as it seems [01:38.95] [01:39.88]In some perfect state of pure grace [01:44.38] [01:46.43]All we prize and protect only cause and effect [01:52.23] [01:53.11]But I suspect the furrow may be guiding the plough [01:57.66] [02:00.16]And I'll never find a better time [02:06.58] [02:07.59]To be alive than now [02:12.33] [03:15.40]No better no worse much the same [03:21.64] [03:22.39]We wait on the why and the when; [03:26.51] [03:29.13]No question but we'll go as we came [03:35.43] [03:36.43]With no shift in the shape of the zen [03:40.36] [03:43.11]And it is as it is and we take as we find [03:49.16] [03:50.47]Always next season's buds on the bough [03:54.28] [03:57.08]But I'll never find a better time [04:03.20] [04:04.82]Hard though it is to allow [04:09.07] [04:12.74]I'll never find a better time [04:18.24] [04:19.23]To be alive than now [04:24.04] [04:46.09]This is the life and we've only time [04:51.95] [04:53.20]To be alive right now