This morning over Greenwich
Not a trail up in the sky
Just a single blackbird
Looking down on me from high
I wanna ask if it can see
All the way to Rome
Or tell me once and for all
How far I've come from home
It circled round the sun
Then it looked me in the eyes
It's bout from here to kingdom come
As the crow flies
Gotta go to Jericho
Before the walls came down
And sing a song of sixpence
Before innocence was drowned
Gotta go to Babylon
Before they learned to speak
Make your way to Palestine
When Shalem still meant peace
Gotta stay the hand that rocked
The cradle of mankind
See how far Atlantas was
As the crow flies
As the crow flies
I wanna know how much I've gained by leaving it behind
I wanna know how much I've lost, when I broke the ties that bind
There's a tide, in the affairs of men
Leads to fortune so they say
But up here in the crows nest
No, it looks more like a wave
More like a wave
More like a wave
More like a wave
Go see the Kalahari
Before it turned to dunes
Speak the language of the San
And learn to read the runes
Talk to Cleopatra
Ask her where she's been
Dig up Ozymandias
And pick his bones all clean
How much distance do you need
To read between the lines
From the desert to the sea
From here to eternity
Just the space from you to me
As the crow flies
As the crow flies
You won't get there by the road
Those saints went marching on
It's not the way you're heading
It's where you started from
It's where you started from
It's where you started from