The Innocent Age

This song is on Dan Fogelberg's "The Innocent Age" album released in 1981 (I have this CD), 4 CD Box Set "Portrait" released in 1997 and "Live: Something Old... New... Borrowed... ...and some Blues released in 2000 (I have this CD)
The Innocent Age drew its inspiration from Thomas Wolfe's major novel Of Time and the River
Producers – Dan Fogelberg and Marty Lewis
Cover Design – Kosh
Cover Photography – Dan Fogelberg and Andy Katz
Liner Photography – Andy Katz
Liner Notes – David Awells
Text – Thomas Wolfe
Dan Fogelberg - acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano, tambourine, lead and background vocals
Russ Kunkel - drums
Ritchie Furay - harmony

Capture the moment, carry the day
Stay with the chase as long as you may
Follow the dreamer, the fool and the sage
Back to the days of the innocent age

Storybook endings never appear
They're just someone's way of leading us here
Waiting for wisdom to open the cage
We forged in the fires of the innocent age

Back at the start it was easy to see
No one to own to, nowhere to be
Deep in the heartlands a sad memory calls to me

Fretful horizons, worrisome skies
Tearful misgivings burning your eyes
Yearnings unanswered, reckon the wage you pay
To recapture the innocent age

Back at the start it was easy to see
No one to own to, nowhere to be
Deep in the heartlands a sad memory calls to me

Fretful horizons, worrisome skies
Tearful misgivings burning your eyes
Yearnings unanswered, reckon the wage you
Pay to recapture the innocent age

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~