The Innocent Age drew its inspiration from Thomas Wolfe's major novel Of Time and the River
Cover Design – Kosh
Cover Photography – Dan Fogelberg and Andy Katz
Liner Photography – Andy Katz
Liner Notes – David Awells
Text – Thomas Wolfe
Dan Fogelberg - piano, electric piano, hammer dulcimer, electric lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocal
Russ Kunkel - drums, backwards traps
Kenny Passarelli - bass
"Sid's Raiders" with members of the UCLA Choir directed by Marc Gottesman
Orchestral arrangements by Glen Spreen and Dan Fogelberg
Concertmaster - Sid Sharp
Sometimes
in the night I feel it
Near as my next breath and yet untouchable
Silently the past comes stealing
Like the taste of some forbidden sweet
Along
the walls in shadowed rafters
Moving like a thought through haunted atmospheres
Muted cries and echoed laughter
Banished dreams that never sank in sleep
Lost in
love and found in reason
Questions that the mind can find no answers for
Ghostly eyes conspire treason
As they gather just outside the door
And
every ghost that calls upon us
Brings another measure in the mystery
Death is there to keep us honest
And constantly remind us we are free
Down
the ancient corridors
And through the gates of time
Run the ghosts of days that we've left behind
Down
the ancient corridors
And through the gates of time
Run the ghosts of dreams that we left behind
Sometimes
in the night I feel it
Near as my next breath and yet untouchable
Silently the past comes stealing
Like the taste of some forbidden sweet
And
every ghost that calls upon us
Brings another measure in the mystery
Death is there to keep us honest
And constantly remind us we are free
Down
the ancient corridors
And through the gates of time
Run the ghosts of days that we've left behind
Down
the ancient corridors
And through the gates of time
Run the ghosts of dreams that we left behind
~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~
