Home is more than occupation
Though I walked for years through other nations
It burns inside and home is like a wave of rolling memory
And it’s breaking over flashback scenes
As I think of joys and forget the grieving
I stand alone in lands unknown
And sing, of home and the weight of it
And the heart exiled and ex-patriate
Oh we loved the world that came our way
But there's no words that can make it stay
Had a walk on part in the affairs of the heart
But still the heart is the home of us
And the blood, soul, and the bone of us
We’re gone home – home
So in my mind I stand in Ironopolis
By the Tees in the early morning
It's like I see the energy and heat
Of a thousand furnaces
In the teeth of the nineteenth century
Where the great ironmasters' greater workers
Spanned a world with tracks and girders
For an Empire's wheels - these men of steel
After 200 years hope the morning sun
Will arise now the work and the days are done
They’re gone home – home
They said we’d made our beds in human nature
And "If you spilled your blood, well no-one made you"
We can be high if we deal in rhyme
And we sing mainly now for the football team
But these gods have lived and gods have died
As an angel falls a Satan rises in our siren night
Like a homeless child we were still
And we never gave the game away
And on the hills, the gods made the same mistake
They’re gone home – home
So as I walk the hills of Ruahine
And Tararua it's still within me
But now I find I'm more of the mind
That home, like fortune and destiny
In the end it comes down to you and me
Like faith, hope, love and charity
In the end it comes down to you and me
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