Marble Orbronze - One Corner Of England Lyrics

Your parents were minded for crossing the waves
Where many had gone
There was work, with the money they reckoned to save
They wouldn't stay long
But time in a corner was shredding their plans
Made ash of their tickets for home
In a green English grave there's an emerald gem
One corner of Ireland will always be them

The classroom's a battle for those not the same
For the alien alone
You cast off your accent and over it came
On a voyage of its own
You signed for their war when the sirens began
And you wed when the bells rang again
With the making of friends came the opening of doors
One corner of England seemed sure to be yours

Your world in the end was the sky and the leaves
You could see from your chair
No Sweet Inniscarra was tugging your sleeves
You were happy right there
Identity's shimmering highway unwinds
Through all of the lands of our lives
In a Leicestershire lane there's a Tullamore Dew
One corner of England will always be you

One corner of England will always be you
One corner of England will always be you