The Land Of The Free lyrics - Chris De Burgh

If you go down to the water

And look out to sea

There will be a ship sailing

Away on the breeze

She is heading for America

And that's where I'll be

For the tide it is turning

For this land and me

There's no end to the darkness

A blight on the land

We are drowning in hardship

No place for a man

With a dream that will take him

To where the wind blows

I can't pay the Middleman

So I must go

With rain in my heart, sun on my back

There's a new world that's waiting for me

We've been praying for a miracle

And that's what we'll see, when we're sailing to America

The Land of the Free

There are many there before us

Who with open arms, will give every hope

To a man who works hard

There'll be others who hate us and do as they please

But anything is better than this place on it's knees

With rain in my heart, sun on my back

There's a new world that's waiting for me

We've been praying for a miracle

That's what we'll see, when we're sailing to America

The Land of the Free

There'll be some that will greet us

Like dust in the wind

"Go back now to where you came from;"

And I'm told that they'll treat us like pigs in a pen

So I know that I must be strong, I must be strong

With rain in my heart, sun on my back

To the new world that's waiting for me

We've been praying for a miracle

And that's what we'll see, when we're sailing to America

The Land of the Free

We'll be sailing to America

The Land of the Free

The Land of the Free