When I stand before you shining in the early morning sun

 When I feel the engines roar and I think of what we've done

 Oh the bittersweet reflection as we kiss the earth goodbye

 As the waves and echoes of the towns become the ghosts of time



 Over borders that divide the earthbound tribes

 No creed and no religion just a hundred winged souls

 We will ride this thunderbird, silver shadows on the earth

 A thousand leagues away, our land of birth



 To Albion's land

 Coming home when I see the runway lights

 In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

 Coming home, far away as their vapor trails align

 Where I've been tonight, you know I will not stay



 Curving on the edge of daylight til it slips into the void

 Waited in the long night, dreaming til the sun is born again

 Stretched the fingers of my hand, covered countries with my span

 Just a lonely satellite, speck of dust and cosmic sand



 Over borders that divide the earthbound tribes

 Through the dark Atlantic; over mounting stormy waves

 We will ride this thunderbird, silver shadows on the earth

 A thousand leagues away, our land of birth



 To Albion's land

 Coming home when I see the runway lights

 In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

 Coming home, far away as their vapor trails align

 Where I've been tonight, you know I will not stay



 To Albion's land

 Coming home when I see the runway lights

 In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

 Coming home, far away as their vapor trails align

 Where I've been tonight, you know I will not stay



 Coming home, far away when I see the runway lights

 In the misty dawn the night is fading fast

 Coming home, far away as their vapor trails align

 Where I've been tonight, you know I will not stay