Coming Home - Iron Maiden

When I stand before you shining

In the early morning Sun

When I feel the engines roar

And I think of what we've done

Oh the bittersweet reflection

As we kiss the earth goodbye

As the waves and echoes of the

Towns become the ghosts of time

Over borders that divide the

Earthbound tribes

No creed and no religion

Just a hundred winged souls

We will ride this thunderbird

Silver shadows on the earth

A thousand leagues away

Our land of birth

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the

Runway lights

In the misty dawn

The night is fading fast

Coming home far away

As the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight

You know I will not stay

Curving on the edge of daylight

'til it slips into the void

Waited in the long night dreaming

'til the Sun is born again

Stretch the fingers of my hand

Cover countries with my span

Just a lonely satellite

Speck of dust in cosmic sand

Over borders that divide the

Earthbound tribes

Flown the dark Atlantic

Over mariners stormy graves

We will ride this thunderbird

Silver shadows on the earth

A thousand leagues away

Our land of birth

To Albion's land

Coming home when I see the

Runway lights

In the misty dawn

The night is fading fast

Coming home far away

As the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight

You know I will not stay

To Albion's land

Coming home

When I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night

Is fading fast

Coming home far away

As the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight

You know I will not stay

Coming home far away

When I see the runway lights

In the misty dawn the night

Is fading fast

Coming home far away

As the vapour trails alight

Where I've been tonight

You know I will not stay