Name: Poet and a Starman
Duration: P00H03M07S
Description: After all these years still probably my favorite song of all of them I've written.

Poet and a Starman

from Passing Through by Bill Sutton

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After all these years still probably my favorite song of all of them I've written.

lyrics

I am a poet and a starman,
I drift the boundless void alone.
I seek the brilliant clusters,
I touch the alien stone,
But the songs I sing are the songs of home -- my long lost home.

I race the universe and travel
Not fast enough to catch its light.
I left my dreams behind me
In time and in my flight,
The things I loved in endless night -- while I shine bright.

I've seen their wonders and their treasures.
I've read their words and heard their songs.
They speak their dreams so proudly,
Their voices loud and strong,
I sing alone when they have gone -- then I go on.

I am a poet and a starman.
I sing my way from sun to sun.
I ask the brilliant clusters
Where alien planets run,
Do I regret the things I've done? The songs I've sung?

credits

from Passing Through, released October 31, 1999
Words & music by Bill Sutton ©1984 Mad Tom Music

Performers include one or more of:

Bill Sutton: vocals, guitar
Nate Bucklin: lead guitar
Barry Childs-Helton: lead 12-string guitar
Sally Childs-Helton: congas, frame drum, zils, wind chime, drum kit
Dave Clement: backup vocals and effects, bodhran, cittern, washboard, guitar, dumbek
Kylea Fulton: flute, whistle
Tom Jeffers: backup vocals and effects, bass guitar, mandolin, cittern
Mike Musser: saxophone
Bill Roper: backup vocals and effects
Gretchen Roper: backup vocals and effects
Brenda Sutton: backup vocals

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