Lyric This Changing Light

i wrote this once before
       long before the summer
       you were then a student
       and we were dark as angels
       we were in the east
       working to the west
       the west was looking south
       and the south she had no pity

       but last night i dreamed
       and you were always in it
       there were hopes and plans and schemes
       and the town was full of winners
       oh brother oh sister
       this changing light
       has lighted things so differently
       has lighted things so differently

       i wrote this once before
       and we were all then working
       we thought we d stop the flow
       of a cruel and heartless woman
       if i d known this then
       what would these wings have done
       they d have beat and flapped and flown
       and not done and not done

       but last night i dreamed
       and you were always in ti
       there were hopes and plans and schemes
       and the town was full of winners
       oh brother oh sister
       this changing light
       has lighted things so differently
       has lighted things so differently

       i wrote it on my hand
       i kept it in the dark
       i never ran it through my hair
       i stuffed it in my pocket
       i wrote this on a journey
       all the way from spain
       where our fellows fought
       and never came back again
       to this changing light