Although now it seems like never When we were even less together I appeared to have my back to the wall And the way things were going There was no way of knowing If I was having any luck at all Silently, suddenly, standing before me An old man awaited his death Part of me cried out But none turned to hide For no curses distorted his breath It was then I took to thinking And my hand took to writing And my dreams came into answer to call Waiting in wonder my thoughts ran like thunder Could it be I've been wasting my mind I grew sort of cold as the vision unfolded Bursting the shackles of time So I gathered what I had Took a look at that was going down And it made me kind of sad Watching all the circles going slowly round And the stars sang in harmony It was so perfect that it laid me down And the rain clouds were tossed away Seemed like the world was lost and I would drown - In its sound Somewhere along the road I don't know where I had really believed I was poor Looking, not seeing, the point of my being When all of my fortune is sure