Oceans Away

　　Oceans Away - Elton John

　　I hung out with the old folks,

　　in the hope that I'd get wise.

　　I was trying to bridge the gap,

　　between the great divide.

　　Hung on every recollection,

　　in the theater of their eyes

　　Picking up on this and that,

　　in the few that still survive.

　　Call em up

　　Dust em off

　　Let em shine

　　The ones who hold onto the ones,

　　they had to leave behind

　　Those that flew, those that fell,

　　The ones that had to stay,

　　Beneath a little wooden cross

　　Oceans away

　　They bend like trees in winter,

　　these shuffling old gray lions

　　Though snow white start to gather,

　　like the belt around Orion.

　　Just a touch of faded lightning,

　　of the powerful design,

　　Of the generation gathered,

　　for maybe the last time.

　　Call em up

　　Dust em off

　　Let em shine

　　The ones who hold onto the ones,

　　they had to leave behind

　　Those that flew, those that fell,

　　The ones that had to stay,

　　Beneath a little wooden cross

　　Oceans away

　　Oceans away where the green grass sways and

　　the cool wind blows across the shadow of their graves.

　　shoulder to shoulder, back in the day,

　　sleeping bones to rest in Earth

　　Oceans away

　　Oceans away

　　Call em up

　　Dust em off

　　Let em shine

　　The ones who hold onto the ones,

　　they had to leave behind

　　Those that flew, those that fell,

　　The ones that had to stay,

　　Beneath a little wooden cross

　　Oceans away