Blue Horizon - Graham Parker

We’d follow the sound

Of the dirt tracking bikes

Into the sunset

Into the sunset

Or the wings of a painted lady butterfly

That escaped the net

Escaped the net

Or the cry of a long lost bird

That defied identification

You could hear it from the

Air raid shelter

With the walls soaked to saturation

These dreams will never sleep

That wake me from my adult slumber

They have no schedule to keep

And they drive me onward

Into the blue horizon

I’d hit the ground runnin'

I’d hit the ground hard

Then jump up alert

Jump up alert

My mother and father

Watched over me

And made sure i never really got hurt

Made sure i was never stifled or bound

That’s what everybody needs

In their background

That’s the rock you build

Your mountain on

And it can never never fall down

My friends all grew up

And some went out

All around the world

And back again too

Some of them stayed put

In their hometown

Well there’s worse things

That you can do

Some of them married

Couple of them died

Some of them just go

Along for the ride

Can’t claim to understand

What it all means

Probably nothing

But that’s not how it seems