I was thinking of home as the bus pulled away    Take me to the Cape and you knowing what I had to do    And the sun it beat down all along the highway    As I thought about the day when I told you I would stay    I was trying just to find the words to tell you    That I had to go and leave it all behind    I had to go back to the land where I had come from    I'd lost what I came to find had to leave it all behind    And the lights of old Boston still shine on you now    Where you'll be what they want you to be    Yeah the lights of old Boston still shine on you now    And you know in your heart in your heart you must be free    Goodbye my girl don't you know I hate to leave you    Goodbye my girl and I hate to see you cry    Goodbye my girl don't you know I hate to leave you    But it's better this way to say goodbye    You were smiling when you met me at the station    And I wondered if you'd cry when I told you I would die    If I had to stay one more week in this nation    It's the land of the free but not where I want to be    And you asked me if I loved you more than Ireland    And to tell the truth the answer it was no    Cause I just knew that I could never make this my land    In the home of the brave I would only find a grave    As I got aboard the plane my heart was breaking    As I left you there in pain with no words that could explain    Why I had to make to make the journey I was making    Had to leave you alone but then how could you have known    All the things I was feeling deep inside me    As I sat there I wondered how    I could love a country more than I could love you    As the plane took off and flew I just knew that it was true