Wrapped Up In Time

[bad word] wrapped up in time 
Like the past in a present
Or the perfect line in a song
They take their time 
And when they're gone 
They take their time with them
And you can't have them back 
Because the time for them has gone
And their time has gone with them
The time for them has gone.
There's an echo of them
An echo of the time they were wrapped in
Sweet or bitter in the memory 
But an echo is all, all I can reach now
An echo of you 
An echo of you 
An echo of you in your time
Still echoing 
Like a star in the sky 
Like a star in the sky above me
And the story of it's life 
Told backwards down this rod of light 
But at it's beginning.. 
Long extinct.