Timeless Skies

Album: Time Passages (1978)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is based specifically on Wilmcote, "the village where first I grew" as Stewart says in the song. Al was born in Glasgow in 1945 but later moved to the South West of England with his widowed mother, who was born in Northamptonshire. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

Comments: 2

  • Mavis from Upper Great LakesSomehow Al Stewart has created a song that actually sounds like the English countryside. The only other song that holds this distinction is Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill."
  • Sparrow from Somewhere East Of Nowhere OregonFor some reason all chroniclers mess up the text in line 30, although Al Stewart sings it quite clearly in this legendary song. Please do correct this omission. The line should read:

    You never hold at all till its gone
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