Journey Of The Magi

Journey Of The Magi - Frank Turner

Moses was old a chill in his bones

Falling apart he knew in his heart that his time had come

As he lay in his tent in the hot desert sands

He smiled at how he would never see his promised land

He sang "I could have lived and died

An Egyptian prince could have played safe

But in the end journey's brought joys

That outweigh the pain"

Now Odysseus sat tired and alone

He'd always held out against all the doubts he would come home

Now he was here his soul felt estranged

His wife and his dog his son and his gods everything changed

He sang "I could have stayed and ruled

As an Ithacan prince could've played safe

But in the end journey's brought joys

That outweigh the pain"

Now Balthazar rode for seven long years

Eastwards and far he followed his star and it brought him here

To a stable in ruins in some backwater town

To a virgin defiled no king but a child too small for a crown

He sang "I could have lived with my Gods

As a Persian prince I could've played safe

But in the end journey's brought joys

That outweigh the pain"

Paupers and kings princes and thieves

Singers of songs righters of wrongs be what you believe

Saddle your horse shoulder your load

Burst at the seams be what you dream and then take to the road