Tunie: Belong

About

by Great Big Sea.

Jenny said goodbye this afternoon

As far as I can tell

She can't bear the goodbye evenings

Or the morning-afters of farewell

She says "Here you are, another one

To whose back I'm saying 'Cheers.'

It's like a death in the family,

And it's been going on for years."

(chorus)

So I'll cast my leaving shadow

And I'll be Canadian

But distance won't decide what matters

To the hard Rock's loving son

And when I'm thinking of St. John's

I'll bring her closer with a song

I don't know where I'm going

But I know where I belong.

Don't get the old man started--

We'll have to hide him from the rum

If we can keep his mind from '49

Then he'll keep having fun

It's not the kids he's cursing,

Though I'm his third to leave

He's mad at Mr. Smallwood

And it's a parent's right to grieve

(chorus)

So let's take a moment's silence

For our dear departed souls

Let's fly our flags at half their masts

As another young man goes

The laughter of the children

Supplanted by the rolling ghosts

Another tide surrenders to a far and foreign coast

"I told Mom I'd stay close to the cousins

Who beat the path from our front door

One right after the other, and they won't be back no more

But the thing I think I fear the most,"

She whispered in my ear

"Is being the last flower in the garden

With no one left to care."

(chorus)

So I'll cast my leaving shadow

And I'll be Canadian

But distance won't decide what matters

To the hard Rock's loving son

And when I'm thinking of St. John's

I'll bring her closer with a song

I don't know where I'm going

But I know where I belong.

Where I belong

Where I belong

I don't know where I'm going

But I know where I belong.