Lyrics

Leaving To Stay

You have grown with the grasses and blown through the fields
And you?ve run up the hills where eternity kneels
You have set down your roots and leaned up to the sun
And today I shall marry my blossoming one

Look away from the island
Away from the old world
Away from the young girl that lived yesterday
For I?ve built us a home and a field of our own
We?re not leaving to go my love
We?re leaving to stay

I have sailed to your island and taken my stand
And I?ve plowed up a dowry in hopes of your hand
I have broken and planted and waited for years
Just to lift up your face and catch all of your tears

Look away from the island
Away from the old world
Away from the young girl that lived yesterday
For I?ve built us a home and a field of our own
We?re not leaving to go my love
We?re leaving to stay

Tell father and mother you will visit in another season
And tell the ghosts of your childhood you?ll never return

We will cross the wide ocean and land on my shore
Not to wander for love but to wander no more

Look away from the island
Away from the old world
Away from the young girl that lived yesterday
For I?ve built us a home and a field of our own
We?re not leaving to go my love
We?re leaving to stay


Music/Lyric by Mark White
Copyright © 2002 Off White Compositions