Elton John - Oceans Away

I hung out with the old folks
 In the hope that I'd get wise
 I was trying to bridge the gap
 Between the great divide

 Hung on every recollection
 In the theater of their eyes
 Picking up on this and that
 In the few that still survived

 Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine
 The ones who hold onto the the ones
 They had to leave behind
 Those that flew and those that fell
 The ones that had to stay
 Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away

 They bend like trees in winter
 These shuffling old grey lions
 Those snow-white stars still gather
 Like the belt around Orion

 Just to touch the faded lightning
 Of their powerful design
 Of a generation gathering
 For maybe the last time

 Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine
 The ones who hold onto the the ones
 They had to leave behind
 Those that flew and those that fell
 The ones that had to stay
 Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away

 Oceans away
 Where the green grass sways
 And the cool wind blows
 Across the shadow of their graves.
 Shoulder to shoulder back in the day
 Sleeping bones to rest in earth, oceans away

 Call 'em up, n' dust 'em off, let 'em shine
 The ones who hold onto the the ones
 They had to leave behind
 Those that flew and those that fell
 The ones that had to stay
 Beneath a little wooden cross oceans away