Graham Parker - Blue Horizon lyrics

We'd follow the sound Of the dirt tracking bikes Into the sunset Into the sunset Or the wings of a painted lady bu*terfly That escaped the net Escaped the net Or the cry of a long lost bird That defied identification You could hear it from the Air raid shelter With the walls soaked to saturation Chorus These dreams will never sleep That wake me from my adult slumber They have no schedule to keep And they drive me onward Into the blue horizon I'd hit the ground runnin' I'd hit the ground hard Then jump up alert Jump up alert My mother and father Watched over me And made sure i never really got hurt Made sure i was never stifled or bound That's what everybody needs In their background That's the rock you build Your mountain on And it can never never fall down Chorus My friends all grew up And some went out All around the world And back again too Some of them stayed put In their hometown Well there's worse things That you can do Some of them married Couple of them died Some of them just go Along for the ride Can't claim to understand What it all means Probably nothing But that's not how it seems Chorus