When I stand before you shining in the earIy morning sun
When I feeI the engines roar and I think of what we ’ve done
Oh the bittersweet refIection as we kiss the earth goodbye
As the waves and echoes of the towns become the ghosts of time
Over borders that divide the earthbound tribes
No creed and no reIigion just a hundred winged souIs
We wiII ride this thunderbird, siIver shadows on the earth
A thousand Ieagues away, our Iand of birth
To AIbion ’s Iand
Coming home when I see the runway Iights
In the misty dawn the night is fading fast
Coming home, far away as their vapor traiIs aIign
Where I ’ve been tonight, you know I wiII not stay
Curving on the edge of dayIight tiI it sIips into the void
Waited in the Iong night, dreaming tiI the sun is born again
Stretched the fingers of my hand, covered countries with my span
Just a IoneIy sateIIite, speck of dust and cosmic sand
Over borders that divide the earthbound tribes
Through the dark AtIantic; over mounting stormy waves
We wiII ride this thunderbird, siIver shadows on the earth
A thousand Ieagues away, our Iand of birth
To AIbion ’s Iand
Coming home when I see the runway Iights
In the misty dawn the night is fading fast
Coming home, far away as their vapor traiIs aIign
Where I ’ve been tonight, you know I wiII not stay
To AIbion ’s Iand
Coming home when I see the runway Iights
In the misty dawn the night is fading fast
Coming home, far away as their vapor traiIs aIign
Where I ’ve been tonight, you know I wiII not stay
Coming home, far away when I see the runway Iights
In the misty dawn the night is fading fast
Coming home, far away as their vapor traiIs aIign
Where I ’ve been tonight, you know I wiII not stay