walkabout Lyrics

A silhouette of vultures on a blood red sky

Reckon I'll be moving on by and by

An age in exile an era of ennui

Haunted in my waking haunted in my dreams

No sense of direction lost track of the days

Try to find the signal place where i went astray

Fat moon like an empty eye looking down on me

Dark on the horizon creeping relentlessly

Once I was a sailor homeward bound

Song of the siren run me aground

Wandered the wasteland under that spell

Till the ground opened up

And I went spinning down a wishing well

She takes you to the temple wrapped in dreams

Leads you nodding by a gentle stream

Leaves you darkly wondering what it means

Disappears into the steam surreal and serene

People say I gone walkabout

That I ain't come back yet

I can see it in their eyes

Still I stay a silent sentinel

Longing for my homeland

Watching falling stars against darkening skies

Lost my reflection lost my shadow too

And I stumbled hard on the narrow way

But I kept on pushing through

Because it's all I ever knew

Wished away and whiled away my youth

This mask it hides a bitter truth

Excuses notwithstanding I'm the living proof

I come a long long way from home

To see the plunder of the pyramids the sacking of Rome

The sacking of Rome

Under a hell-bound star upon a godless sea

No cross to kneel to or deity to hear my plea

I come a long long way from home

To see the plunder of the pyramids the sacking of Rome

The sacking of Rome