Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day 
 You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. 
 Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town 
 Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. 

 Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. 
 You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. 
 And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. 
 No one told you when [bad word]  you missed the starting gun. 

 So [bad word] and [bad word] to catch up with the sun but it's sinking 
 Racing around [bad word] up behind you again. 
 The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, 
 Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. 

 Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. 
 Plans that [bad word] to naught or half a page of scribbled lines 
 Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way 
 The time is gone, the song is over, 
 Thought I'd something more to say.

 Home
 Home again
 I like to be here
 When I can

 When [bad word] home
 Cold and tired
 It's good to warm my bones
 Beside the fire

 Far away
 Across the field
 Tolling on the iron bell
 Calls the faithful to their knees
 To hear the softly spoken magic spell