Baz Chapman

By Angus MacPhail (Skipinnish)

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Arranged by Baz Chapman

 

Inspired by a conversation between Skipinnish co-founder and songwriter Angus MacPhail and Alistair Campbell about staying 'young of mind and heart' and their shared love of running.

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An upbeat and stirring song, with a contemplative middle section - 'Fleeting flames in worlds vast'.

 

Time goes by like the winter winds

And the decades fly as the world spins

Where it goes we’ll never know and cannot save.

We all must live before we leave

Achieve to give and to believe.

As the years disappear like tears on the ocean wave.

 

Forever Young and still we run

Living dreams that seem to move with the rainbow’s gold.

Forever Young and still we run

And we’ll run for the sun and the years won’t leave us old.

 

How long our time we’ll never know

But up we’ll climb and on we’ll go.

Keeping pace and grace in the race of the roads we tread.

At age eighteen or eighty-five

Whatever’s been you are alive

So drive for the prize, your lifetime lies ahead.

 

Go by the creed of those we see,

The blessed breed who hold the key,

The rare who dare not care for the age they are.

And meet the day and hit the night

Fight hard and play and chase the light

And dance to a tune by the moon and the morning star.

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Fleeting flames in worlds vast

We all too soon become the past.

As glow and shadow guide our way

Pray long the path but live the day.

 

Available for Soprano, Alto, Baritone (SAB); Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass (SATB); and Soprano, Soprano, Alto (SSA) - all with piano accompaniment.