Released: February 26, 1988
Songwriter: Mark T. Williams Joseph Williams David Paich
Producer: Bill Payne George Massenburg Toto
[Verse 1]
Day after day
I feel myself slowing down
What does it mean?
The air has changed
It's getting harder to breathe
Or so it would seem
[Pre-Chorus]
Sail me away to a distant shore
Where everything's fine
[Chorus]
A thousand years
Lost in the blink of an eye
If the sky keeps fallin', the world will come tumbling down
In a thousand years
[Verse 2]
Tell me, my friend
Can you imagine a place
Free of boundaries and lies?
There's blood on the wind
And it's come all of the way
From faraway skies
[Pre-Chorus]
Take me away to a different world, where everything's fine
[Chorus]
A thousand years
Lost in the blink of an eye
If the sky keeps fallin', the world will come tumbling down
In a thousand years
A thousand years
One day for every life
Just keep on going, we'll find you a home underground
In a thousand years
[Guitar Solo]
[Pre-Chorus]
Sail me away to a distant shore, where everything's fine
[Chorus]
A thousand years
Lost in the blink of an eye
If the sky keeps fallin', the world will come tumblin' down
In a thousand years
A thousand years
One day for every life
Just keep on going, we'll find you a home underground
In a thousand years
[Outro]
Sail me away to a distant shore, where everything's fine...
Day after day
I feel myself slowing down
What does it mean?
The air has changed
It's getting harder to breathe
Or so it would seem
[Pre-Chorus]
Sail me away to a distant shore
Where everything's fine
[Chorus]
A thousand years
Lost in the blink of an eye
If the sky keeps fallin', the world will come tumbling down
In a thousand years
[Verse 2]
Tell me, my friend
Can you imagine a place
Free of boundaries and lies?
There's blood on the wind
And it's come all of the way
From faraway skies
[Pre-Chorus]
Take me away to a different world, where everything's fine
[Chorus]
A thousand years
Lost in the blink of an eye
If the sky keeps fallin', the world will come tumbling down
In a thousand years
A thousand years
One day for every life
Just keep on going, we'll find you a home underground
In a thousand years
[Guitar Solo]
[Pre-Chorus]
Sail me away to a distant shore, where everything's fine
[Chorus]
A thousand years
Lost in the blink of an eye
If the sky keeps fallin', the world will come tumblin' down
In a thousand years
A thousand years
One day for every life
Just keep on going, we'll find you a home underground
In a thousand years
[Outro]
Sail me away to a distant shore, where everything's fine...
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- Hold the Line
- Rosanna
- I’ll Be Over You
- Georgy Porgy
- I Won’t Hold You Back
- 99
- I Will Remember
- Lea
- Pamela
- Stop Loving You
- Hydra
- If It’s the Last Night
- Could You Be Loved
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Goin’ Home
- St. George and the Dragon
- Gypsy Train
- I Think I Could Stand You Forever
- How Does It Feel
- Last Love
- Blackeye
- Mrs. Johnson
- A Secret Love