Tim Gerard - As the Crow Flies

This morning over Greenwich not a trail up in the sky

Just a single blackbird looking down on me from high

I wanna ask if it can see all the way to Rome

Or tell me once and for all how far I’ve come from home

It circled round the sun then it looked me in the eyes

It’s about from here to kingdom come

As the crow flies


Gotta go to Jericho before the walls came down

Sing a song of sixpence before innocence was drowned

Gotta go to Babylon before they learned to speak

Make your way to Palestine when Shalem still meant peace

Gotta stay the hand that rocked the cradle of mankind

See how far Atlantas was

As the crow flies

As the crow flies


I wanna know how much I’ve gained by leaving it behind

I wanna know how much I’ve lost, when I broke the ties that bind

There’s a tide in the affairs of men, leads to fortune so they say

but up here in the crows nest

oh It looks more like a wave...

More like a wave

More like a wave

More like a wave


Go see the Kalahari before it turned to dunes

Speak the language of the San and learn to read the runes

Talk to Cleopatra ask her where she’s been

Dig up Ozymandias and pick his bones all clean

How much distance do you need to read between the lines

From the desert to the sea

From here to eternity

Just the space from you to me

As the crow flies

As the crow flies


You won’t get there by the road

Those saints went marching on

It’s not the way you’re heading

It’s where you started from

It’s where you started from

It’s where you started from

Written by:
Gordon Torr, Timothy Gerard de Graauw

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Lyrics © Sentric Music

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