Ten Steps Behind

Ten steps back in the gravel and cold

Keeping the pace of a story untold (shhh)

Punch in, punch out,

the hours decay

Walking the boundary where night meets the day (ahhh)

She tracks the shadow of the man she knows

Restrained and devoted where the deep water flows

An aching heart in a heavy wool coat

But the gate swings wide!

And the light pours in like a sudden tide (shining)

Six-thirty rings in the silent hall

An unremembered return against the wall

(punch in...) Punch out...

(punch out...)