I arrived in the city of lights   Enchanted ballrooms where I lost my life   I've closed my eyes    On your fairground smile   Seedy heroes and silver tills   Sinking suns on a sea of thrills   I place my bets   Trading with stranger in silhouette      There's a sadness   There's a joy    There's a place   There's a song that will never die   Forever      I drink your health, son of the earth   Passing ships in the modern death   We're all still fired   Old emotions still burn inside   On solid ground, round the mother tongue   A tower of hope, a joyful sound   You take your time   A hand of aces in a pack of lies      (Chorus)      I found my song and I started to sing   Took me away on an olden wing   So far from home   Standing so lonely but not alone   In this empire of ache and rhyme   Lovers and best friends are running blind   I grasp your hand   Is this the only world I understand      (Chorus)