When you thought of me      From the cradle of England   To a foreign exchange   Thorough the clamour of long years away   I never lost sight of   The reason that I left you:   To return to you one day      From the bleak and familiar   To the tropical strange   Through the glamour of empires abroad   I never abandoned   The hope of reclaiming   My legitimate reward      When you thought of me   If you had the time   You never would have known   The mountains I'd climb      I won't be without again, woman   You won't drive me out again, woman   And as you come to learn    All that *I've done was for you   You'll see what obsession can do   Woman      So the unschooled outcast   The irascible youth   Has become all the things you desired   I took all they offered   And learned their deceptions   All relentlessly acquired      And the eyes of the traveller   See an obvious truth   You've become all the things you've denied   And the loss of ambition   Was colouring your reason   As the pleasure in you died      When you thought of me   Had me on your mind   You never would have dreamed   Of the riches I'd find      I won't be without again, woman   You won't drive me out again, woman   And as you come to learn   All that I've done was for you   You'll see what obsession can do   Woman