Lighter Than Air

Days on the road without end

You'll find me on the wayside

This cold December morn

I'll be there

I've something to share with you

And you're the first to know

I've been to the ends of the Earth

Seen the peril and the beauty

Within the line of duty in a war

In a war where no one kept score

Of who was dying inside, while the smoke was rising high

Lighter than air

I've been to the Islands of Love

Sat high upon a hillside, like a pillar in the sky

And I looked down, a king with no crown

When the passing of an eagle caught my eye

Just then a moment of truth crossed my mind

I stood there and I trembled

A vision had assembled

Then and there, a song from nowhere came dancing on the tradewinds like a prayer

Lighter than air

Lighter than air is the thread that we weave

Long is the road that we wind

We're shooting our arrows straight into the sun

So blind, our will to survive

Lighter than air is the thread that we weave

Long is the road that we wind

We're shooting our arrows straight into the sun

So blind, our will to survive

Once there was a young girl, I do remember well

She listened to my story of misbegotten glory

And she tried to stay by my side, until something happened and the feeling just slipped away

We parted in the summer of seventy nine

She left me on the wayside

I left her with a child

How can it be just history to me

To be forgotten like the fallen leaves of time?

Lighter than air

Days on the road without end

You'll find me on the wayside, this cold December morn

I am here

You are so near

Beside the fire there's another empty chair

Lighter than air

Lighter than air is the thread that we weave

Long is the road that we wind

We're shooting our arrows straight into the sun

So blind, our will to survive

Lighter than air is the thread that we weave

Long is the road that we wind

We're shooting our arrows straight into the sun

So blind, our will to survive