Night Train

Your beauty was wasted on someone so young
I was blind to your mountains
Deaf to the song of the smallbirds
Deaf to the fall of the stream
I left for the city to follow my dreams
To stare at the bright lights
To stand in your crowds
And to walk through your shops with their fine evening gowns
And to eat from the plates of the rest of the world
Surrounded by fast cars diamonds and pearls
I've spent years in the city with no time to think
For more than a moment
More than the wink of a blue eye
More than the fall of a leaf
So I catch the big red bus just to walk on the heath
To consider my children
And what they've become
And how they had grown up in a world of their own
And I realised that their world is not really mine
And I know in my heart that it's home coming time

Chorus
I'm coming home on your night train
Cos home has been beckoning me
When I was a kid I could not see your beauty
How blind can any man be
I've tasted life in your city
And the city gave generously
But you can keep all your fast cars your diamonds and pearls
Cos they're not worth a shilling to me
Just to walk on your pathways to breathe in your air
To stare at your mountains
Feel the mad rush of your rivers
Bathe in the power of your sea
I feel like the blind man who has just learned to see
As I walk through your valleys
And lay on your sand
I feel like the prophet returned to his land
I'm at one with this country and know that it's mine
And I'd stay here forever if I could have time

© John Richards

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