Tom More is the founder of Restrung Lefty Media Productions (www.RestrungLefty.com) and a multi-instrumentalist (bass, keyboards, drums) and vocalist. He is ava
I was already well into writing the music for this song, but, as is usually the case during my composing, I didn't have lyrics for it yet. The first two lines came in a flash one day while I was working around the house and the overall idea grew progressively from that. Oddly this occured just a couple of months before my daughter was conceived so it ended up being something of a foreshadowing. I find it even more powerful a message now that I'm a parent.
Lyrics
Outside children are playing
Dawn and the sun's first light
Innocence and wonder awakened
A morning of simple delights
School passes slowly yet fast
Soon graduation at last
Still learning but off on your own
In this world chart a course all alone
The eternal clock is ticking
CHORUS
Time limits what we have to give
Account and record the days we live
As if we've nothing reckoned
Could really ever save a second
Changes all our dreams
Aren't as predictable as the means
To push us off from all our plans
Will meet the touch of other's hands
Sun's high, life in full bloom
Don't rush to find afternoon
Savor the richness of youth
A journey pursuing truth
A ring, a vow, a life anew
Miracle from love of two
Teach them wisdom, and joy
Life's lessons for both girl and boy
The eternal clock is ticking
CHORUS
SOLO
Providing example and watching them grow
Influence subtle in ways that you'll never know
The next generation will follow your lead
A family's great contribution to society's desperate need
With working days finished
The children grown and gone
There's finally time to contemplate
All you have seen and done
An auburn autumn sunset
Sheds a rich but fading light
Lengthens towards a winter's silence
Immortal as the starry night
