Albums

07 - Mountains

Several years ago, I visited Bavaria (specifically Zugspitze) and was completely struck by the landscape, and having mountains on the horizon.

In contrast, Cambridge is utterly flat, and for about a month or so after I came back, I'd see mountains on the horizon for a moment before realising they were just clouds.

Time and time again I have said no
To chasing sunrise
I'd better stay with what I know
And that's where home lies
Oh, and it's good enough for me
This is my horizon
This city shows me all I want to be

Time and time again, I somehow failed
At chasing blue skies
I never felt the need to sail
To travel so wide
Oh, but little did I see
How flat my land could be

Now I've travelled I don't recognise my homeland
All these valleys turned to parks
And I am home now, though I've never been so far
Instead of mountains that are scored across my heart
There's only cloud, covering the sky from the horizon to the stars

Time and tide tend to ebb and flow
And always will do
But I have seen now where they go
And I have been too
Oh, and little did I see
How flat my land could be

Now I've travelled I don't recognise my homeland
All these valleys turned to parks
And I am home now, though I've never been so far
Instead of mountains that are scored across my heart
There's only cloud, covering the sky from the horizon to the stars

The stars
To the stars...

Oh, a little piece of me
Still lives among the peaks
Missing from my homeland...

Instead of mountains that are scored across my heart
There's only cloud, covering the sky from the horizon

Of my homeland
All these valleys turned to parks
And I am home now, though I've never felt so,
Never felt so...

Instead of mountains that are scored across my heart
There's only cloud, covering the sky from the horizon to the stars

The stars
To the stars...

Oh, there's a little piece of me
Still high among the peaks
And always will be