Oceans Away Lyrics - The Diving Board [deluxe W/ Exclusive Vintage Troubadour Poster] - Elton John

I hung out with the old folks 

In the hope that I'd get wise 

I was trying to the gap 

Between the great divide 

Hung on every recollection 

In the theater of their eyes 

Picking up on this and that 

In the few that still survived 

Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine 

The ones who hold onto the the ones 

They had to leave behind 

Those that flew and those that fell 

The ones that had to stay 

Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away 

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They bend like trees in winter 

These shuffling old grey lions 

Those snow-white stars still gather 

Like the belt around Orion 

Just to touch the faded lightning 

Of their powerful design 

Of a generation gathering 

For maybe the last time 

Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine 

The ones who hold onto the the ones 

They had to leave behind 

Those that flew and those that fell 

The ones that had to stay 

Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away 

Oceans away 

Where the green grass sways 

And the cool wind blows 

Across the shadow of their graves. 

Shoulder to shoulder back in the day 

Sleeping bones to rest in earth, oceans away 

Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine 

The ones who hold onto the the ones 

They had to leave behind 

Those that flew and those that fell 

The ones that had to stay 

Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away