Sweet Foreign Lands Lyrics


So young and naïve

a hero’s life in mind

No reason to grieve

leaving my old life behind  – don’t shed no tear

The wind and the stars

will guide me on this quest

I fear no scars

nor hunger, pain nor death – I don’t lose faith

They said: “You won’t make it!”

They said: “You will die!”

No one thought I’d come back

yet here I am

I survived

I returned

now I yearn

to leave again

and set the sail

blaze a trail

make my way

to sweet and foreign lands

You wouldn’t believe

the things that I have seen

You couldn’t conceive

the places I have been – beyond the sea

They said: “You won’t make it!”

They said: “You will die!”

No one thought I’d come back

yet I’m alive

I survived

I returned

now I yearn

to leave again

and set the sail

blaze a trail

make my way

to sweet and foreign lands