[theoddz]

Oceans Away -- Written and performed by Elton John

I hung out with the old folks
In the hope that I’d get wise
I was trying to
bridge 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 survive

Call em up
Dust em off
Let em shine
The ones who hold onto the ones,
they had to leave behind
Those that flew, those that fell,
The ones that had to stay,
Beneath a little wooden cross, Oceans away

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
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
Dust em off
Let em shine
The ones who hold onto the ones,
they had to leave behind
Those that flew, those that fell,
The ones that had to stay,
Beneath a little wooden cross

Oceans away...



~Theo~