Sundial Blues

(These are song lyrics from the alt-rock band Echo of a Sundial, a relatively popular early 90’s group hailing from a suburb of Seattle in the United States of My Head. All song lyrics - unless otherwise noted - are credited to lead vocalist Jeremy Whitfield with occasional input from his band mates)

What did we make of the gods
the sky
when we wore marble feet?

When we drank knowledge
in Athenian malls and
tomorrow was so sweet

Making circles that
pointed the way
through the valley of days

We knew the creatures that
commanded the world
but how to learn learn their ways...?

***
It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we are

It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we can be,
we’ll see...
***

Lost and lorded over
by the lies
written on the walls

Ruled by the promises
made by the myths
written by us all

The shadow creeps
as the Circle keeps
all the mortal creatures
running round like sheep

Centuries pass
us by
oh so fast
and I
can’t seem to learn from the past
at all

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It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we are
...
It’s all just a long drawn shadow
from where we start

It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we can be
...
It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we’ll leave,
we’ll see...
***

Echoes of time
refuse to show us the rhyme
in the reason
of the stars

Echoes of time
will always sound so divine
when the reason
is so far
so far
so far
so far
so far
so far
So Far AWAY!

***
It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we are
...
It’s all just a long drawn shadow
from where we start

It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we can be
...
It’s all just a long drawn shadow
of what we’ll leave,
we’ll see...
***

I still can’t see
what we’re meant to be...

Still waiting to see
If we’re meant to be...

(Jeremy Whitfield, EOAS self-titled album, 1989)