i am on my way to daylight i am on my way keep it open keep it bright through the tangled wispy worries of another night in my freely fashioned destiny i search the night for seas of light to sail my lovely dreams to the sunny virgin beaches of my city scenes i am caught up in the circle and i turn again like the seasons like the moon like the still and frozen moment in the beggar s hand love is bargained for much too soon as time goes by the past is high upon its rising wings and i feel along the edges of my city scenes i am riding on my fantasies and getting by it will carry me where they belong followed by mechanical realities they will bury me unless i m strong and chivalry and pageantry and all that falls between are collected and respected in my city scenes i ve been working on the railroad all my livelong life to find the way to set the track to run the train to take me back to take me back