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                         It was late in December. The sky turned to snow.

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All'round the day was going down slow. Night, like a river, beginning to flow

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I felt the beat of my mind go drifting into


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time passages. Years go falling in the fading light.
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Time passages.           Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.

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                                Well, I'm not the kind to live in the past.

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The years run too short and the days too fast. The things you lean on are

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things that don't last. Well it's just now and then my line gets cast

into these


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time passages.        There's something back there that you left behind.
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Time passages.           Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.

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                                Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting
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to turn. Don't know why you should feel that there's something to learn.

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It's just a game that you play.


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Well, the picture is changing. Now you're part of a crowd. They're laughing

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at something, the music's loud. A girl comes toward you you once used to know.

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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone in those


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time passages.       I know you're in there, you're just out of sight.
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Time passages.          Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.


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