The Great Sense Of Passing Through lyrics

I have returned to the northern skies Where the summer had not touched the clouds that pass above Oh and I have returned to the somber gates Of the days too early to come and too early to stay And I have left a million stars And an ocean so lively, so clearly blue And I have left the warmth of the sun And a million adventures not yet begun The great sense of passing through The great sense of passing through The great sense of passing… through Oh for once there was beauty, yeah for me Under these wide northern skies I felt the green was blacker and the blues darker still My roots are lying deeper than I ever think they will again Heartache and poetry Under these northern skies The great sense of passing through The great sense of passing through The great sense of passing… through