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



Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

Skated over ten year frozen streams

Words like when youre 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

Were captive on the carousel of time

We cant 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

Cart wheels cross to car wheels through the town

And you tell him take your time it wont be long now

Till you drag your feet to slow those circles down



So the boy who dreamed tomorrow now is twenty

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur, coming true

Therell be new dreams maybe better dreams a plenty

Before the last revolving year is through



And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

Were captive on the carousel of time

We cant return we can only look behind from where we came

And go round and round and round in the circle again