Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)

Album: Vulture Culture (1985)
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  • Chris Rainbow - Lead Vocals
    The traveler is always leaving town
    He never has the time to turn around
    And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere
    He seems to be completely unaware

    The traveler is always leaving home
    The only kind of life he's ever known
    When every moment seems to be
    A race against the time
    There's always one more mountain left to climb

    Days are numbers
    Watch the stars
    We can only see so far
    Someday, you'll know where you are

    Remember
    Days are numbers
    Count the stars
    We can only go so far
    One day, you'll know where you are

    The traveler awaits the morning tide
    He doesn't know what's on the other side
    But something deep inside of him
    Keeps telling him to go
    He hasn't found a reason to say no

    The traveler is only passing through
    He cannot understand your point of view
    Abandoning reality, unsure of what he'll find
    The traveler in me is close behind

    Days are numbers
    Watch the stars
    We can only see so far
    Someday, you'll know where you are

    Remember
    Days are numbers
    Count the stars
    We can only go so far
    One day, you'll know where you are Writer/s: ALAN PARSONS, ERIC WOOLFSON
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Comments: 5

  • Sherry from Springfield, MissouriWhere can I find a list of songs on the albums. I can sadly no longer check my collection of albums.
  • Kitten1952 from TexasHuge, lifelong Brian Wilson/Beach Boys and Alan Parsons Project fan here. Heard this song for the very first time today on Pandora. Are you sure Brian Wilson didn’t help write this one? Or at least influence the writers heavily? It’s beautiful!!!
  • Mary from Phoenix, AzUmmmm...that video is like a live version of the Coyote and Roadrunner. Strange and cheesy. Although the actors look very familiar. I wish I knew their names.
  • Soutiman from Mumbai, IndiaThe song is absolutely amazing .. super amazing.
  • Gaj from Nagoya, JapanI am.
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