As the Crow Flies
Until it makes sense
Lyrics by Gordon Torr & Tim Gerard; arranged and performed by Tim Gerard
This morning over Greenwich, not a trail up in the sky
Just a single blackbird looking down on me from high
I wanna ask if it can see all the way to Rome
Or tell me once and for all how far I’ve come from home
It circled round the sun
Then it looked me in the eye
It’s about from here to kingdom come
As the crow flies
Gotta go to Jericho before the walls came down
Sing a song of sixpence before innocence was drowned
Gotta go to Babylon before they learned to speak
Make your way to Palestine when Shalem still meant peace
Gotta stay the hand that rocked
The cradle of mankind
See how far Atlantis was
As the crow flies
As the crow flies
I wanna know how much I’ve gained
By leaving it behind
I wanna know how much I’ve lost
When I broke the ties that bind
There’s a tide in the affairs of men
Leads to fortune so they say
Up here in the crow’s nest
It looks more like a wave
Oh, it looks more like a wave…
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Go see the Kalahari before it turned to dunes
Speak the language of the San and learn to read the runes
Talk to Cleopatra, ask her where she’s been
Dig up Ozymandias and pick his bones all clean
How much distance do you need,
to read between the lines
from the desert to the sea
here to eternity
Just the space - from - you - to - me
As the crow flies
As the crow flies
You won’t get there by the road
Those saints went marching on
It’s not the way you’re heading
It’s where you started from
As the crow flies
As the crow flies
As the crow flies
As the crow flies