A Few Thousand Days Ago

I fell asleep on the train

With the towering mountains rolling by

And woke to the sound

Of thunder crashing in the sky

The air was ghostly blue

The mist was rising slow

It's still a vivid memory

From a few thousand days ago

From a few thousand days ago

As we passed through small quiet towns

Crossed miles of burning desert sands

And fields of green and gold

I began to see and understand

The wonders great and small

That this world has to show

In a way I never had before

A few thousand days ago

Just a few thousand days ago

I had made up my mind

It was time to let familiar things fall behind

I was glad to be all alone

In the middle of the wide unknown

Through lost empty towns

Across miles of burning dessert sands

And fields of green and gold

I began to feel and understand

The wonders great and small

That this world has to show

Like the promise in a new sunrise

A few thousand days ago

A few thousand days ago

It set my heart and soul at ease

To hear the silence and the wind through the trees

I was glad to be all alone

In the middle of the wide unknown

I fell asleep on the train

With the towering mountains rolling by

And woke to the sound

Of thunder crashing in the sky

The air was ghostly blue

The mist was rising slow

It's still a vivid memory

From a few thousand days ago

From a few thousand days ago