a time to go
and leave the place
that you call home
you’re passing through
the streets that once
were all you knew
a time to leave
there’s somewhere else
I need to be
you can’t believe
there’s another side
I need to see
passing through
the quiet sleeping town
you drift away
into the great unknown
and you hear your footsteps
falling deep and low
and it’s only that
you know I had to go
I hope you know
I hope you know
a time to leave
you just see what
you want to see
and I can’t be
the one you think I’m
meant to be
a time to go
there’s limits to
the things you know
you won’t control
who I will be
who I will love
passing through
the quiet sleeping town
you drift away
into the great unknown
and you hear your footsteps
falling deep and low
and it’s only that
you know I had to go
I hope you know
I hope you know
a time to leave
a starling singing
in the trees
it makes you smile
to think that it’s just
morning time
morning time
Words and Music by John Hegarty © 2014