Released: July 16, 2014
Songwriter: Alan White Jon Davison
Producer: Roy Thomas Baker
Were you drifting
On a strange tide?
Collecting visions
From the other side?
Caught between day and night
You were stealing moments past hours
Of your life
And balancing on
The edge of a knife
Memories of once longer days
They keep on flooding back
The adventurous times when we
Traveled life’s road
Though we were often blind
But with a lot more heart
And for each other
Taking the time
On a wing and a prayer
A wounded bird in the hand
With the eyes of a child
Come to understand
I will open the book
Raise the pen
Let it reinvent
My life again
Take me from where I am
As a freed bird
Flies from the hand
To ascend, to ascend
Were you catching
The last train to nowhere?
Playing out scenes
Of dark desert days?
Put it behind you now
Call out those bleak shadows from your mind
And never again
Slip through the cracks
Memories of once longer days
They keep on flooding back
The adventurous times when we
Traveled life’s road
Though we were often blind
But with a lot more heart
And for each other
Taking the time
On a wing and a prayer
A wounded bird in the hand
With the eyes of a child
Come to understand
I will open the book
Raise the pen
Let it reinvent
My life again
Take me from where I am
As a freed bird
Flies from the hand
To ascend, to ascend
On a strange tide?
Collecting visions
From the other side?
Caught between day and night
You were stealing moments past hours
Of your life
And balancing on
The edge of a knife
Memories of once longer days
They keep on flooding back
The adventurous times when we
Traveled life’s road
Though we were often blind
But with a lot more heart
And for each other
Taking the time
On a wing and a prayer
A wounded bird in the hand
With the eyes of a child
Come to understand
I will open the book
Raise the pen
Let it reinvent
My life again
Take me from where I am
As a freed bird
Flies from the hand
To ascend, to ascend
Were you catching
The last train to nowhere?
Playing out scenes
Of dark desert days?
Put it behind you now
Call out those bleak shadows from your mind
And never again
Slip through the cracks
Memories of once longer days
They keep on flooding back
The adventurous times when we
Traveled life’s road
Though we were often blind
But with a lot more heart
And for each other
Taking the time
On a wing and a prayer
A wounded bird in the hand
With the eyes of a child
Come to understand
I will open the book
Raise the pen
Let it reinvent
My life again
Take me from where I am
As a freed bird
Flies from the hand
To ascend, to ascend
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Heaven & Earth (2014)
Yes popular songs
- Roundabout
- Close to the Edge
- Owner of a Lonely Heart
- And You and I
- I’ve Seen All Good People
- Heart of the Sunrise
- Siberian Khatru
- Starship Trooper
- Yours Is No Disgrace
- The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
- Long Distance Runaround
- The Gates of Delirium
- Changes
- South Side of the Sky
- We Have Heaven
- Love Will Find a Way
- Leave It
- Awaken
- Perpetual Change
- Going for the One
- Sweetness
- Tales from Topographic Oceans
- It Can Happen
- Your Move