Verse 1
I was listening to the kettle
In the blue light of the day
When a childhood came back to me
But it did not feel far away
Wet concrete on the back step
My mother calling through the screen
I was standing in two places
Or somewhere in between
Pre-Chorus
And I asked the quiet kitchen
What is here that time can prove?
Is there anything but this here now
Anything beside thought that moves?
Chorus
In the room without clocks
Nothing ticked and nothing stopped
Curtains moved, the light kept falling
Dust was turning in the air
There was no past to carry
No future waiting there
Only this unfolded shining
Everywhere
Verse 2
The mind says, “Here’s your story
You were young and now you’re old”
Threads the beads of all your moments
On a line it calls your soul
But I looked for that line closely
In the breath and in the sound
And all I ever really found
Was change without a ground
Pre-Chorus
Memory was here now
Imagination too
But the places they were pointing
Never entered into view
Chorus
In the room without clocks
Nothing ticked and nothing stopped
Curtains moved, the light kept falling
Dust was turning in the air
There was no past to carry
No future waiting there
Only this unfolded shining
Everywhere
Bridge
Maybe time’s a name for changes
Maybe mind just draws the seam
Maybe all the worlds I travel
Only rise inside the dream
Maybe somewhere deep in silence
Nothing comes and nothing goes
Only this eternal instant
Wearing all the forms it knows
Final Chorus
In the room without clocks
Nothing ticked and nothing stopped
Birdsong passed through open window
Evening settled on the chair
There was no self in motion
No road from here to there
Only this unfurled presence
Everywhere
Outro
So if you ask me where time went
I’d say I never saw it go
I saw the leaves, I felt the heartbeat
I watched the amber evening glow
And if there’s truth beneath the story
It does not speak in then or when
Just this
And this
And this again
