The song The Circle Game is performed by Tom Rush in the album named Classic Rush in the year 2009 .
Yesterday a child came out to wander,
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar.
Fearful, the skies were filled with thunder.
Tearful at the falling of a star.
Chorus:
And the seasons, they go go round and round.
The painted ponies go up and down.
We're captured on the carousel of time.
We can't return, we can only look
behind from where we came,
And go round and round in the circle game.
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
And skated over ten clear frozen streams.
And words like when you're older must appease him,
And promises of someday make his dreams.
Chorus
The sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now.
His cart wheels lost to car wheels through the town.
They tell him take your time, it won't be long now
Until you drag your feet to slow your circles down.
Chorus
So the child who dreamed tomorrow now is twenty.
And his dreams of lust and grandeur coming true.
They'll be new dreams, maybe there'll be better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through.
Chorus
And go round and round in the circle game.
Tom Rush - Classic Rush
Classic Rush
- On the Road Again
- The Cuckoo
- Who Do You Love?
- Joshua Gone Barbados
- Shadow Dream Song
- Urge for Going
- Galveston Flood
- Love's Made a Fool of You
- No Regrets/Rockport Sunday
- Something in the Way She Moves
- The Circle Game