Lyrics

Don't try to catch me in a copper frame
Don't try to tether down a leaping flame
I was born where the rowan trees grow wild
The restless daughter, the Atlantic's child

I've got the dust of the islands on my skin
Opening the door to let the gale blow in.


The fences are falling, the locks are all broken
The words of the ancient are finally spoken
I'm a bird on the wire, a ship on the swell
I've got a thousand more heavens than hell!



And they'll never catch the wind in a golden cage
I'm the ink that's running off the printed page!
I am wild, I am wide, I am perfectly free
Like the river that is running to a nameless sea
Oh, you can try to follow, you can try to hold on
But by the time you wake, I'll be long, long gone!


I'll take the high road where the hawks all wheel
The sting of the spray is the only truth I feel

I don't need a roof, I don't need a key
The whole wide world is a home to me

If you look for my footprints in the morning dew
I'll be ten miles north and starting something new.



And they'll never catch the wind in a golden cage
I'm the ink that's running off the printed page!

I am wild, I am wide, I am perfectly free
Like the river that is running to a nameless sea

Oh, you can try to follow, you can try to hold on

But by the time you wake, I'll be long, long gone!


I'm the shadow on the mountain
I'm the spray upon the stone

I am never lost...

I am just at home.



And they'll never catch the wind in a golden cage

I'm the ink that's running off the printed page!

I am wild, I am wide, I am perfectly free

Like the river that is running to a nameless sea

Oh, you can try to follow, you can try to hold on

But by the time you wake, I'll be long, long gone!



Long, long gone...


Just try and catch me now.