Long Journey Home Lyrics - Elvis Costello

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 

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 

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 

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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 

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