Circle Game

Circle Game - Pat Surface/The Boundary Water Boys

Yesterday a child came out to wonder

Caught a dragonfly inside a jar

Fearful when the sky was full of thunder

And tearful at the falling of a star

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return we can only

Look behind from where we came

And go round and round

And round in the circle game

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

Skated over ten clear frozen streams

Words like

When you're older must appease him

And promises of someday make his dreams

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

Captive on the carousel of time

We can't return we can only look

Behind from where we came

And go round and round

And round in the circle game

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now

Cartwheels turn to car

Wheels through the town

They tell him

Take your time it won't be long now

Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down

The seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return we can only

Look behind from where we came

And go round and round

And round in the circle game

The years spin by and now the child is twenty

Though his dreams have lost

Some grandeur coming true

There'll be new dreams

Maybe better dreams and plenty

Before the last revolving year is through

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We're captive on the carousel of time

We can't return

We can only look behind from where we came

And go round and round

And round in the circle game