Tales Lyrics - The Magician's Birthday - Uriah Heep

We told our tales as we sat under 

Morning's sleepy sky 

With all the colors of 

The sunrise shining in our eyes 

One, then another 

With a story of yesterday's life 

Or of a lover who had 

Gone in a moment of strife 

No thought of sleep ever dwells 

Upon the wise man's mind 

Some task or audience 

Stealing every moment of his time 

Thus we have learned to live 

While mortal men 

Stand waiting to die 

How can we do what must be done 

In just one short life 

And if you ask 

Then you must know 

If you still doubt 

You should be told 

It was not we 

That made it so 

It was by those 

Who went before 

And there you sit 

Tomorrow's child 

So full of love 

So full of life 

But you must rise 

To meet the day 

Lest you become another tale 

Another tale