Come Back Home

Come back home where the three orange suns
Set in the bottom of the globe (yeah now).
Come back home where the three purple moons
Set in the bottom of the water (yeah now).

You know that I’ve been there
And I think you should beware;
You know they all have faces, too,
Like me.

(Now) Hadrian’s wall, (it) will not return.
It’s crumbled to the land of nowhere;
No one sees it, no one hears it anymore.
(And) it scrapes my hands across the pavement,
Just to think about it,
Like the world around you does.

You put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
Yeah, you put on your crowns.
Yeah, you put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
But you can’t run away like Dorothy and her dog.

You put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
Yeah, you put on your crowns.
Yeah, you put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
But you can’t run away just to come back.
Come back.

Come back home where the blue lights glow
And the red ones glow ‘til tomorrow (yeah now).
Come back home where the three purple moons
Set in the bottom of the water (yeah now).

You know that I’ve been there
And I think you should beware;
You know they all have faces, too,
Like me.

When the wrinkles in you wrist are yelling,
”It won’t hurt a bit!”
But you know it will,
’Cause tears and excuses wipe you off your feet.
(Yeah) tears and excuses wipe you off your feet.
Like the world around you does.

(And) it wipes you off your feet, like the world around you does.
It scrapes your hands across the pavement
Like the world around you does.
(And) you wish the world would,
(Yeah) you wish the world would change.
(And) you wish the world would,
(Yeah) you wish the world would change.
Change, change.

(Now) Hadrian’s wall, (it) will not return.
It’s crumbled to the land of nowhere;
No one sees it, no one hears it anymore.
(And) it scrapes my hands across the pavement,
Just to think about it,
Like the world around you does.

You put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
Yeah, you put on your crowns.
Yeah, you put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
But you can’t run away like Dorothy and her dog.

You put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
Yeah, you put on your crowns.
Yeah, you put on your crowns, and your emeralds, and your rubies,
But you can’t run away just to come back.
Come back.

So, what's Hadrian's Wall?
Hadrian's Wall was intended to protect occupied Britain from the unruly Picts, who - in Rome's view, at least - preferred savagery to civilization. Work began under the Emperor Hadrian in 122 A.D., and the 74-mile (119-km) wall was completed in just six years. Today, the best-preserved sections of wall are in a 20-mile (30-km) section between Hexham and Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England. Along the way are walls, fortresses, camps, and other ruins (some restored) along with museums and information centers.

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