CENTURIES

CENTURIES

WRITTEN BY JEFF R HILTON

2019

LOVE SAID GOODBYE

SAILED ON OCEANS HIGH

A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

A CHANCE TO SEE NEW LANDS

MAYBE GROW SOME ROOTS FARAWAY

THEY SAILED ON THE OCEANS 

THE SAILED ON THE SEAS

THEY CAME ON THE HORIZON 

IN THE MORNING SUN

 A BRAVE NEW FRONTIER TO BE WON

THEY LANDED ON THE SHORES

HEARTS FULL OF HOPE

THEY BUILT A PLACE TO LIVE

AND GAVE THANKS TO THEIR GODS

LEARNED HOW TO TAKE AND GIVE

THEY TRADED WITH THE NATIVES

SILVER AND GOLD FOR FINEST STEEDS

ONE BY ONE THEY MET THEIR NEEDS

THEY FADED INTO THE LAND

DEALT WITH THE HARDSHIPS

AND THE THINGS THAT DIDN'T

ALWAYS GO AS PLANNED

THEY CELEBRATED LITTLE VICTORIES

DREW LINES IN THE SAND

ALWAYS SOMETHING COME TO LIGHT

TO MAKE TOMORROW

 JUST A LITTLE BIT BRIGHTER

AGAINST ODDS SO THIN

ONLY THE BEST SURVIVED

STAYED ALIVE

CENTURIES IN DUST

NEARLY LOST IN TIME

NOWHERE'S TOO FAR

AS YOU WERE

AS YOU ARE

LISTEN CLOSELY TO THE WIND

IS THAT LAUGHTER I CAN HEAR

FARAWAY BUT IT SOUNDS SO NEAR

LOVE SAID GOODBYE

DISAPPEARED IN THE TREES 

THE WHERE WAS NEVER SURE

JUST THE WHY

LET ME SLEEP WHERE I LIE

BURIED IN CENTURIES PAST

NO MATTER WHAT

YOU CAN'T LAST