As The Crow Flies

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[Verse 1]

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When that bird fell from its nest,
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Me and my sister did our best,
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To feed it earthworms everyday,
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After school we watched it fly away,

[Verse 2]

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And I miss my mother my old room and the sound of the rain
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As it fell on the rooftops and ran along the drains
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But sometimes it feels like an ocean that railway line
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Sometimes it feels like we're living in darker times

[Verse 3]

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I'm heading back home for a couple of days
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I can't imagine all that much has changed
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See that town it moves with the colour of the sky
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There's a face I recognise
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As the crow flies

[Verse 4]

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Well someone's opened up a cafe on the river's edge,
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I will go there in the summer rent some boats out, we said,
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Those kids grew up in the beat of the old bass drum,
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From son to father, from father back to son,

[Verse 5]

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That cat she used to run rings, always playing tricks on the dog,
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He'd be sitting in the kitchen rolling round all covered in mud,
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Now they're buried in the garden in the shadow of the hawthorn tree,
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Farewell travellers, may your souls always be free

[Verse 6]

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Well we always get together this time of year,
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Always wish I could tell them what they're waiting to hear,
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But who said time moves in straight lines,
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At least I can say I tried,
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As the crow flies

[Verse 7]

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She said "you're drinking too much, "I said, "yes I probably am"
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I find it easier to forget what I can't understand
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Like how all those snakes made it past the lions so fast
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And how the future turned so quickly into the past

[Verse 8]

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Now the cafe by the river's all boarded up,
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There's an autumn wind blowing through the old horse chestnuts,
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And I saw him in a dream, said "he's doing alright,"
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I can see him in your eyes
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As the crow flies
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As the crow flies

[Verse 9]

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But sometimes it feels like everything's been done before,
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The same ideas and the same four chords,
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We're still leaving in the morning for to cross the sea
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Cos not everything has been done by me

[Verse 10]

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I remember that boy in the fading August light
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We watched that fledgling bird take its first flight
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I hope that I have done you proud
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And I promise to wake up and fight

[Verse 11]

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On the roads that we travel on the oceans we sail,
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In the jaws of the dragon in the belly of the whale,
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Yeah I always keep you by my side
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We'll get old and we'll get wise,
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As the crow flies,
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Anywhere any time,
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As the crow flies