1. I’ve travelled a long way, and gathered a heavy load.
It’s only by looking back I see it was the wrong road.
But there’s a feeling I’ve had for years, it never left me somehow.
That the past is always there, it’s just another country now.
If I could go back there, things would feel the same.
I’d throw down my heavy load: the years would fall away.
I’m going back home, where I can smell the sea.
Where the seagulls fly, and where I left me.
‘Gonna go back home, where I can be free,
To a place where I can make sense of my memories.
And where I can stop being what everyone wants me to be.
2. ‘Feel I’m watching my life unfold from behind a TV screen,
And all I can do is stare; no one can hear me scream.
I refused to be like everyone else and join their pantomime,
I chose to be an outsider, that was my only crime.
I’m not going to explain or apologise,
My race is almost run, I don’t have much time.
‘Gotta go back home, where I can smell the sea.
Where the seagulls fly, and where I left me.
‘Gonna go back home, where I can set myself free,
To a place where I can make sense of all my memories,
And where I can stop being what everyone wants me to be.