Long Journey Home

[Verse 1]

If on every ocean the ship is a throne

And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown

Then I could believe that I'm bound to find

A better life than I left behind

[Chorus]

But as you ascend the ladder

Look out below where you tread

For the colors bled as they overflowed

Red, white and blue

Green, white and gold

[Verse 2]

So I had to leave from my country of birth

As for each child grown tall

Another lies in the earth

And for every rail we laid in the loam

There's a thousand miles of the long journey home

[Chorus]